Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Negative Cap-abilities: Keats’s Apollonian Afterlives
- The Sublime of Man: Neoplatonic Interactions in Coleridge’s “Religious Musings”
- Liberty and Revolution: Mary Robinson’s Epic Vision in The Progress of Liberty
- Byron’s Don Juan as a Horatian Poem: Citations, Themes and Poetic Ethics
- “Let Me Converse with Spirits”: Haunting Interactions in P. B. Shelley’s Disembodied Dialogues
- Coleridge’s Interaction with Wordsworth: The “Dejection” Dialogue
- The Art of Ellipsis: The Early Keats and B. R. Haydon
- “Negative Capability”: Keats Informing the “Existince” of Shakespeare
- Keats, the Grotesque, and the Victorian Visual Imagination: “Isabella; or the Pot of Basil”
- Keats’s Negative Capability: The Afterlife of the Concept from Romanticism to Roberto Unger and José Saramago
- Romantic Interactions across the Atlantic: F. W. J. Schelling’s Concept of the “Indivisible Remainder” and Herman Melville’s Idea of the “Ungraspable Phantom of Life”
- Interactions between Science and Literature: Ludwik Zejszner’s Anxiety of Literary Influence
- Shelley’s “Subtler Language” and Its Modern Echoes
- Challenging Rousseau, Challenging Conquest: Wales in Maria Edgeworth’s “Angelina; or L’Amie Inconnue” and Helen
- Feminine Law and Ableness Endangered in the Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Emily Brontë, and Rachel Whiteread
- Textual Intercourses of Women Playwrights with Their Audiences at the Turn of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- “We love Jane Austen more and more”: William Dean Howells and the Rise of American Janeitism
- Cultural Interaction: The Construct of the “Noble Savage” in the Poetry of Goethe, Seume, and Chamisso
- Margaret Fuller between America and Europe: Dispatches from Britain, France, and Italy as Exercises in Cultural Criticism
- Bettina von Arnim and Her Writings on Poland
Margaret Fuller between America and Europe: Dispatches from Britain, France, and Italy as Exercises in Cultural Criticism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on the Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Negative Cap-abilities: Keats’s Apollonian Afterlives
- The Sublime of Man: Neoplatonic Interactions in Coleridge’s “Religious Musings”
- Liberty and Revolution: Mary Robinson’s Epic Vision in The Progress of Liberty
- Byron’s Don Juan as a Horatian Poem: Citations, Themes and Poetic Ethics
- “Let Me Converse with Spirits”: Haunting Interactions in P. B. Shelley’s Disembodied Dialogues
- Coleridge’s Interaction with Wordsworth: The “Dejection” Dialogue
- The Art of Ellipsis: The Early Keats and B. R. Haydon
- “Negative Capability”: Keats Informing the “Existince” of Shakespeare
- Keats, the Grotesque, and the Victorian Visual Imagination: “Isabella; or the Pot of Basil”
- Keats’s Negative Capability: The Afterlife of the Concept from Romanticism to Roberto Unger and José Saramago
- Romantic Interactions across the Atlantic: F. W. J. Schelling’s Concept of the “Indivisible Remainder” and Herman Melville’s Idea of the “Ungraspable Phantom of Life”
- Interactions between Science and Literature: Ludwik Zejszner’s Anxiety of Literary Influence
- Shelley’s “Subtler Language” and Its Modern Echoes
- Challenging Rousseau, Challenging Conquest: Wales in Maria Edgeworth’s “Angelina; or L’Amie Inconnue” and Helen
- Feminine Law and Ableness Endangered in the Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Emily Brontë, and Rachel Whiteread
- Textual Intercourses of Women Playwrights with Their Audiences at the Turn of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- “We love Jane Austen more and more”: William Dean Howells and the Rise of American Janeitism
- Cultural Interaction: The Construct of the “Noble Savage” in the Poetry of Goethe, Seume, and Chamisso
- Margaret Fuller between America and Europe: Dispatches from Britain, France, and Italy as Exercises in Cultural Criticism
- Bettina von Arnim and Her Writings on Poland
Summary
Two women stood out as journalists in the United States before the Civil War: Lydia Maria Child and Margaret Fuller. Child, a novelist, sister of a founding member of the Transcendental Club Convers Francis, between August 1841 and March 1843 published in the Boston National Anti-Slavery Standard a series of lively correspondences from New York, called “letters,” which documented the beginning of the city's transformation into a teeming multiethnic metropolis. Child and Fuller actually knew each other: the former, eight years older, attended Fuller's 1839 famous “Conversations” and was impressed by her knowledge and magnetic influence on the participants. In the fall of 1844, Fuller moved from Boston to New York, having accepted an offer from Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Daily Tribune, to join the editorial board as a regular literary critic and social commentator. The author of the just published Summer on the Lakes enjoyed the privilege of signing her contributions with her name, which was unusual since at that time literary reviews, regardless of the critic's gender, were published anonymously. In the spring of 1846, another offer came and was accepted too: Greeley sent Fuller as a foreign correspondent of the New-York Tribune to Europe. First, she landed in Britain, then went to Paris, and eventually moved to Italy, from which she was never to return.
Out of her thirty-seven dispatches sent to New York between August 1846 and January 1850, nine and a half were about Britain, only three and a half about France, mainly Paris, and the remaining twenty-three and a half referred to Italy, mainly Rome. Leaving the United States forever, Fuller, who turned thirty-six, was one of the best prepared Americans to face the Old World with its heritage, contemporary literature, art, and politics. She knew what and whom to visit in Britain, could read and understand French, read and speak German, and had been fascinated with Italy or, rather, with ancient Rome, since childhood, when her father made her learn Latin and read Latin historians in the original. According to Larry J. Reynolds, “In her private mythology, Fuller always imagined Europe as her true home, a place where she would flourish.
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- Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives , pp. 325 - 334Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2021