The Lives of Margaret Fuller

John Matteson

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Altri dati

Formato:
Hardback
Editore:
WW Norton & Co
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua:
Inglese
Pagine:
384
Dimensioni:
243 X 167
Codice EAN:
9780393068054
Generi:
Biographies, Autors & Writers
Altre informazioni:
Illustrations
Prezzo di copertina:
$ 32,95

I contenuti

A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810 1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column of literary and social commentary for Horace Greeley 's newspaper, and served as the first foreign correspondent for an American newspaper. While living in Europe she fell in love with an Italian nobleman, with whom she became pregnant out of wedlock. In 1848 she joined the fight for Italian independence and, the following year, reported on the struggle while nursing the wounded within range of enemy cannons. Amid all these strivings and achievements, she authored the first great work of American feminism: Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Despite her brilliance, however, Fuller suffered from self-doubt and was plagued by ill health. John Matteson captures Fuller 's longing to become ever better, reflected by the changing lives she led.

L'Autore

John Matteson, a professor of English at the City University of New York, was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for the engrossing (The Times Literary Supplement) Eden's Outcasts (ISBN 978 0 393 33359 6).

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The great strength of John Matteson 's biography lies in his ability to place Margaret Fuller against the social milieu that both made her possible and got in her way. We see, as never before, a life constantly moving onto new ground. --Robert Ferguson, author of The American Enlightenment