Margaret Fuller : writing a woman's life
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Margaret Fuller : writing a woman's life
Macmillan, 1993
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p206-213. -Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This biography of Margaret Fuller tells the story of an unrepresentative woman - one who had to script a new woman's life. Yet it is also the narrative of the emblematic woman of her time. After her death in 1850, even the male writers with whom she was the friendliest - Emerson and Hawthorne - made her life and work a no-man's land, in the ways documented for a later generation by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. What befell Fuller's reputation has happened to that of many other women writers, but it happened to her first. This study uses Fuller's letters as source material, contrasting the script written for Fuller to play from an unmarked grave and the one she actually wrote for herself by living it - as a revolutionary in Italy, a feminist, editor and social critic in America.
Table of Contents
- "My God how I hated her!"
- father's language, mother's name
- "where can I hide until I am given to myself?"
- writing a life for women
- "to drink the air and light"
- dreaming a woman's death.
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