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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... seems (as Poe does) to be deliberately insincere or (as Kirkland does) to be playing lip service to conventional femininity. Fuller's reputation as a critic, recognized formally with the publication of Papers in Literature and Art (1846) ...
... retains her characteristic dialogic structure and occasionally complex syn- tax . Her reviews blur the lines of public and private discourse ; some columns , for example, seem to be letters to the many friends xxxii Introduction.
... seem to be letters to the many friends with whom she no longer keeps in regular contact. To her brother she writes that she has embarked on a new and noble career, a public career as distinguished from her earlier role of private friend ...
... seem there are a larger number of persons waiting for an invitation to calm thought and sincere intercourse than among ... seems far more adequate than the former volume, has more glow, more fusion. Two or three cavils I should make at ...
... World, and many symptoms seem to give her this place, as to other centres the char- acteristics of heart and lungs to the body politic; if we may believe, as the writer does believe, that what is to be acted out 2 “Emerson's Essays”
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