A Transcendentalist Abroad
| Autor: | Magdalena Nerio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Prose Studies. 33:102-116 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9426 0144-0357 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01440357.2011.632219 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes Margaret Fuller's journalism during the period 1846–9, while she served as the European correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. In contrast to prior critical assessments of Fuller's writing, which tend to focus on her nearly canonical feminist polemic, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, I redirect scholarly attention to the formal stylistic features and political valences of her overlooked journalism. The purpose of the article is essentially two-fold. First of all, the article argues that in effect Fuller's Dispatches for the Tribune give voice to a distinctively romantic form of politically engaged travel writing. In an effort to set her own writing apart from the bulk of popular early-nineteenth-century travel writing, Fuller's correspondence is at once historically nuanced and attentive to the subjective impressions of the travel writer, who becomes in Fuller's hands a discerning cultural critic, a figure sympathetic to the work of the activists, reformers, and intelle... |
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