Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller has been identified by Elaine Showalter as the "Dark Lady of the American Renaissance", the emblematic woman of her time. "Woman in the Nineteeth Century" (1845), published to popular success and scurrilous criticism from opponents of the nascent women's movement, sold out within a week. Yet, although her contemporaries, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, judged that Fuller "possessed more influence upon the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time", this major work has not been widely available to modern readers before now. Instead, what has been best known is the "Margaret myth" promulgated after her early death by shipwreck. Thus Fuller's erstwhile friend Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: "She was a great humbug...providence was kind in putting her on board that fated ship." This edition gives modern readers the chance to judge the importance of Fuller's achievements for themselves. Ranging widely from the woman question to the European revolutionary movement in which Fuller played a direct part, her thought pre-figures important themes in modern feminism, particularly the idea of women's "separate voice". Donna Dickenson is the author of "Margaret Fuller: Writing a Woman's Life".

ISBN 0192830856   Pages 298 ISBN13 9780192830852 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 161 Imprint Oxford Paperbacks   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series editor Daniell, David Publication date 17 Feb 1994   Series title World's Classics Non-book description xxxvii261   Height (mm) 180 Library of Congress HQ1154.F87   Width (mm) 110 DEWEY 818.309   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction
		Note on the Text
		Select Bibliography
		A Chronology of Margaret Fuller
		Preface to Woman in the Nineteenth Century		3
		Woman in the Nineteenth Century		5
		Excerpts from Summer on the Lakes in 1843		150
		Review of Anna Jameson's Memoirs and Essays		204
		Review of The Wrongs of American Women		207
		'Things and Thoughts in Europe', no. X		213
		Review of George Sand's Consuelo		215
		Excerpts from 'Aglauron and Laurie'		218
		Poem: 'A Dialogue'		222
		Explanatory Notes		223

"Would inspire great discussion and debate in class."--Dr. Yolanda Romero, North Lake College

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