The Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller (American Women Writers)
As an early feminist, teacher, critic, and social reformer, Fuller (1810-50) explored women's place in society, women's self-definition, male and female relationships, and women's family and maternal roles. She envisioned an interdependent society where men and women possessed traits of both genders. She was also concerned with class and social injustices, working with the Chippewa Indians and the poor in New York's institutions and prisons. This new collection of Fuller's writings features the complete text of her groundbreaking Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Summer on the Lakes . Also included are extensive selections of her essays from The Dial , reviews and essays from the New York Tribune , Italian dispatches, poems, and unpublished journals. Editor Steele's excellent and extensive critical introduction discusses each work in the context of Fuller's life and world events. An excellent companion to Mason Wade's The Writings of Margaret Fuller (1941), this is highly recommended for most public, college, and university libraries.- Jenny Presnell, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OhioCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.