Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844-1846Judith Mattson Bean, Joel Myerson 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. |
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... forces us to remember his lim- itations and prejudices , but the ideal presence of human nature as we feel it ought to be and trust it will be . We address America rather than Americans . " 5 In addressing America , Fuller participated ...
... force . He tirelessly covered national political events and supported reform or party work through editori- als and excerpts from other periodicals . Greeley's primary editorial concern was the improvement of prospects for both industry ...
... forces that led to war. In them, she realizes that a war would drastically reconfigure the nation's popula- tion and landscape, leaving a legacy of dispossession and ethnic conflict. Fuller's essays actively resist American imperialism ...
... force. Because Americans wanted to claim the cosmopolitan sophistication of Europe but to reject its monarchical political systems and alleged cultural decadence, ambivalence marked arguments for a unique national identity. Greeley once ...
... force produces constant shifts in boundaries and rich new soil for literature. The writer, like the farmer, sows seeds of inspiration preserved from the literary past into the new soil, or era. With the reformation of the river delta ...
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