Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Fuller:Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-051

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Abstract

Margaret Fuller gained wide notice during the 1840s as one of the American Transcendentalist movement’s leading voices. Her work shared ideas in common with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau, among other writers who promoted the power of individual knowledge to transcend the concerns of society, yet it reflected distinctive concerns that were Fuller’s own. Through her published work, she sought to influence public opinion beyond the intellectual confines of her native New England. Fuller advocated freedom of expression tempered by high critical standards as a literary reviewer.

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