My Heart Is a Large Kingdom : : Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller / / ed. by Robert N. Hudspeth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Hudspeth, Robert N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 8 halftones

This single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller affords a unique opportunity for renewed acquaintance with a great American thinker of the Transcendentalist circle. The letters represent Fuller at all stages of her life and career, and show her engaged as literary critic, as translator and as champion of German literature and thought, as teacher, as travel writer, as literary editor, as journalist, as feminist, as revolutionary, as wife and mother. "My Heart Is a Large Kingdom," unlike previous collections, includes only letters transcribed from Fuller's manuscripts and does not reproduce correspondence known only from printed sources and copies in hands other than Fuller's.Among the recipients of the letters in this generous selection are such literary and cultural figures as Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Mazzini, Giovanni Angelo Ossoli (Fuller's husband), George Ripley, and Henry David Thoreau. Taken together, the letters serve as a chronicle of Fuller's lifetime and provide glimpses into her thoughts and feelings during the years of the "Conversations," Dial, and the revolution in Rome.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I. Hold On in Courage of Soul: 1818-1839 -- II. Nature Has Seemed an Ever Open Secret: 1840-1844 -- III. The Field Which Opens Before Me: 1845-1847 -- IV. A Time Such as I Always Dreamed Of: 1848-1 8 50 -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- INDEX