Feminist Conversations : : Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading / / Christina Zwarg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Zwarg, Christina,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reading Women Writing
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by gender and desire. Focusing on their exploration of Charles Fourier's utopianism and particularly his concept of "passionate attraction," Zwarg offers the only detailed reading of Emerson's letters to Fuller.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations And Editions Cited -- Introduction: Fuller, Emerson, And The Task Of Reading -- 1. Falling Without Speed: The Feminist Frame Of Emerson's Letters To Fuller -- 2. Feminism In Translation: Fuller's Tasso And Günderode -- 3. Footnoting The Sublime: Fuller On Black Hawk's Trail -- 4. Fuller, Fourier, And The Romance Of The Second Series -- 5. Fuller's Scene Before The Women: Woman In The Nineteenth Century -- 6. Reading Before Marx: Fuller And The New-York Daily Tribune -- 7. Representative Others: Uses Of Fuller And Fourier In Representative Men -- 8. Emerson's Scene Before The Women: Memoirs Of Margaret Fuller Ossoli And "Woman" -- 9. Reading Fate -- Index