Reviews for The Essential Margaret Fuller

The average rating for The Essential Margaret Fuller based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-30 00:00:00 Oksana Zaslavskaya The Essential Margaret Fuller (1992) is a valuable collection of her writings. The anthology, part of the American Women Writers series from Rutgers University Press, is edited by Jeffrey Steele, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an officer in the Margaret Fuller Society. Fuller's major published works, Summer on the Lakes (1844) and Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), comprise the foundation for the edition, which also includes a selection of her publications in the Transcendentalist journal the Dial and in Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune. Steele shares a number of Fuller's more personal writings from letters and journals and a wonderful section on Fuller's poetry. The collection is well-rounded. Being able to read the selected works together in a single volume made for a fulfilling reading experience. Steele's Introduction and Chronology provide biographical and critical information that enriches the reading. Steele's extensive annotations for each of the works help to make the readings accessible to students and other first-time readers but also provide remarkable insights for Fuller scholarship more generally. In her book review of her friend Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: Second Series, Fuller challenges her readers: "The only true criticism of these, or any good books, may be gained by making them the companions of our lives." Jeffrey Steele has given us just such a companion in his edition of Margaret Fuller's writings.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-03-01 00:00:00 Melissa Garrett Woman in the Nineteenth Century is terrific. Some of the travel writing is less interesting.