Transfiguring America
Subtitle: myth, ideology, and mourning in Margaret Fuller's writing
By: Jeffrey Steele.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Myth in literature.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: "Transfiguring America is the product of more than ten years of research and numerous published articles on Margaret Fuller, arguably America's first feminist theorist and one of the most important woman writers in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Fuller's development of a powerful language that paired cultural critique with mythmaking, Steele shows why her writing had such a vital impact on the woman's rights movement and modern conceptions of gender.".

"This study pays special attention to the ways in which Fuller's feminist consciousness and social theory emerged out of her mourning for herself and others, her dialogue with Emersonian Transcendentalism, and her eclectic reading in occult and mythical sources.

Transfiguring America is the first book to provide detailed analyses of all of Fuller's major texts, including her mystical Dial essays, correspondence with Emerson, Summer on the Lakes, 1844 poetry, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and New York Tribune essays written both in New York and Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.