Reintroducing Fuller: Periodical, Transatlantic, Urban
Abstract
The current strong interest in Margaret Fuller focuses not only on her identities as a Transcendentalist and feminist but also on her writings as a transatlantic urban intellectual publishing in popular print media. This emphasis, aided by scholarly editions of her journalism for the New-York Tribune, highlights Fuller’s presence in the transformative decade of the 1840s, which saw an acceleration in periodical publishing, an intensified exchange of texts across the Atlantic, and an increasingly urban location of writing. Most of the essays in the present issue examine the ways Fuller inhabited transatlantic literary and periodical culture. They also include incisive analyses of her writing in other genres – such as her travel book – and of her development as an urban writer. Framing this new research are retrospective essays by Charles Capper and Bell Gale Chevigny, whose biographical and textual work were major forces in recovering Fuller and, therefore, enabling the ongoing scholarship represented in this special issue.
Department
English
Publication Date
Fall 2015
Journal Title
Nineteenth Century Prose
Publisher
Faith University and San Diego State University
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Brigitte. “Reintroducing Fuller: Periodical, Transatlantic, Urban” Nineteenth-Century Prose (NCP) 2015 Fall; 42 (2): 1-16.