Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings From The New York Tribune 1844-1846

Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New York Tribune 1844-1846

Ardent feminist, leader of the transcendentalist movement, participant in the European revolutions of 1848-49, and an inspiration for Zenobia in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and the caricature Miranda in James Russell Lowell's Fable for Critics, Margaret Fuller was one of the most influential personalities of her day. Though a plethora of critical writings, biographies, and bibliographies on Fuller have been available-as well as her three published books, European dispatches, and editions of her letters and journals-until now there has been no complete, reliable edition of her writings from the New-York Tribune, where she was the first literary editor. Fuller wrote 250 articles for the Tribune, only 38 of which have been reprinted in modern editions; this book makes this significant portion of her writings available to the public for the first time. Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson have assembled a selection of Fuller's essays and reviews on American and British literature, music, culture and politics, and art. The accompanying fully annotated, searchable CD-ROM contains all of Fuller's New-York Tribune writings. Review Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson have printed a generous selection of Fuller's Tribune aricles, with the complete archive on a CD-ROM tucked into the book's back cover. - New York Review of BooksJudith Mattson Bean, an English professor at Texas Woman's University in Denton, and Joel Myerson, a professor of American literature at the University of South Carolina, add significantly to the Fuller canon with their selection of more than a hundred articles she wrote as literary editor of the New-York Tribune in the 1840s (all 250 of herTribune articles are included on the CD-ROM that accompanies the book). -- Elaine Showalter, Princeton University - Wilson Quarterly From the Inside Flap Ardent feminist, leader of the transcendentalist movement, participant in the European revolutions of 1848-49, and an inspiration for Zenobia in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and the caricature Miranda in James Russell Lowell's Fable for Critics, Margaret Fuller was on of the most influential personalities of her day.Though a plethora of critical writings, biographies, and bibliographies on Fuller have been available -- as well as her three published books, European dispatches, and editions of her letters and journals -- until now there has been no complete, reliable edition of her writings from the New-York Tribune, where she was the first literary editor. Fuller wrote 250 articles for the Tribune, only 38 of which have been reprinted in modern editions; this book makes this significant portion of her writings available to the public for the first time.Judith Mattson Bean and Joel Myerson have assembled a selection of Fuller's essays and reviews on American and British literature, music, culture and politics, and art. The accompanying fully annotated, searchable CD-ROM contains all of Fuller's New-York Tribune writings. From the Back Cover In the context of a broad critical reassessment of Margaret Fuller's crucial role in the growth of early feminism and the development of American literature and political culture, this volume of essays and reviews by Fuller reveals and celebrates her many faces: transcendentalist, feminist, reformer, and leading literary critic of her day.Margaret Fuller, Critic provides a representative selection from the rich vein of her writings for the New-York Tribune, where she was the paper's first literary editor. From reviews of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe to reflections on such contemporary French novelists as Balzac and George Sand, from investigations into the relationship between race and voting to arguments on an asylum for discharged female convicts, the scope of Fuller's critical vision is here made manifest. About the Author Judith Mattson Bean is associate professor of English at Texas Woman's University in Denton an