Title: Transfiguring America
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Feminism and literature, History, Intellectual life, Myth in literature, National characteristics, American, in literature, Women and literature, Fuller, margaret, 1810-1850, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, National characteristics in literature, National characteristics, american, Mythology in literature, United states, intellectual life
Places: United States
People: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Time periods: 19th century