Table of Contents

Preface
1: Transcedental Editor
2: Romantic Recoveries
3: Liberal Awakenings
4: Virgin Lands
5: Concords and Discords
6: New York Star
7: Young America's Critic
8: Ambassador of the World
9: Risorgimento
10: Year of Revolutions
11: Foreign Correspondence
12: States of Siege
13: Florence Exile
14: Dark Passages
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the Author

Charles Capper is Professor of History at Boston University. In addition to writing the acclaimed first volume of Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, he is coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition and the journal Modern Intellectual History.

Reviews

"Superb."--Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books
"With this second volume, Capper has established his preeminent position as the authority on Fuller....This is a triumph of great intellectual achievement, displaying an amazing depth of knowledge and admirable research."--Sally G. McMillen, Reviews in American History
"Capper's book makes us see that Fuller was finally not a romantic heroine but a historical creature, endowed with extraordinary capacities for making a place for herself....Charles Capper finally brings Margaret Fuller back home, reclaiming her and her immense intelligence for America."--Christine Stansell, The New Republic
"This long-awaited second volume of Capper's Bancroft Prize-winning biography of Fuller fulfills all expectations....Capper has crafted both an intimate life and a subtle analysis of Fuller's work."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Capper's magnificent biography restores Fuller as a transnational citizen of the liberal Atlantic world and as the first great American champion of cosmopolitan avant-garde culture."--Mary Loeffelholz, Boston Globe
"Our understanding of one of the most original and consequential 'men of letters' in 19th-century America--this country's first modern feminist--is as complete as the art of biography allows."--The Atlantic
"Charles Capper does not simply know about Margaret Fuller; he knows Fuller herself--her mind and heart, her hopes and fears. This biography is a monument to both its brilliant subject and her sensitive, perceptive biographer."--Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought
"A triumph. A revolutionary, a feminist, an intellectual, a wife and a mother, Margaret Fuller lived a rich full life. This is a rich full account of it, easily the best life of Fuller ever written."--Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire
"A tour de force."--Mary Kelley, University of Michigan
"Will undoubtedly stand for generations to come as the authoritative biography of one of this nation's most important, influential women intellectuals."--Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
"This portrait of Fuller as a feminist and cosmopolitan cultural figure has been highly praised by historians."--New York Times Book Review