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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... political con- sciousness and reoriented her perspective. They show that she gained an increased understanding of the opportunities for political action open to women and to intellectuals as she directly considered national political ...
... political activists and forced her to express her views on the social issues of her day . Her columns became textual acts of identity produced through individualized responses to this sociohistorical context . Reading and writing were ...
... political activism . Whether this shift consti- tutes an extension or rejection of Romantic idealism is debatable.3 Fuller vehemently defends reform activity against the charge of superficial senti- mentalism when Carlyle labels ...
... 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 and laborers in America . He assigned ...
... political essays become significant public acts of identity. Through them she creates the authority, subjectivity, and self- hood that anticipate her European dispatches. The Texas conflict was only one of several struggles over ...
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