"Ravishing harmony"
Subtitle: defining Risorgimento in Margaret Fuller's dispatches from Italy to the New York Tribune, 1847 to 1850
By: Hea-Gyong Jo
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Saarbrücken, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783639096897
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History; Sex role; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-180)
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction. The development of Margaret Fuller's cultural and political thinking in the 1830s and 1840s: the identity of self and nation; title: 2. What is Italy? Defining plural regional identities and nationalisms in 1847; title: 3. Contesting Risorgimento: old Italy and new Italy in Margaret Fuller's dispatches of 1848; title: 4. "Voyage", transcendental vestals and "To a daughter of Italy" (The People's Journal, December 1847); title: 5. Margaret Fuller's feminization of the Risorgimento and "Chartered Power"; title: Conclusion. Fuller's place in defining nation and Risorgimento.