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- ISBN
- 9780544245617
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
054424561X
ISBN-13
9780544245617
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12038412886
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Margaret Fuller : a New American Life
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, General, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2014
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Reference, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." e" Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close readinge"from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a e~first womane(tm) who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar.e e" Evan Thomas, author of Ikee(tm)s Bluff: President Eisenhowere(tm)s Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshalle(tm)s Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshalle(tm)s Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." e" Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fullere(tm)s was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshalle(tm)s new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character.e e" Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight."e" Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fullere(tm)s dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fullere(tm)s extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fullere(tm)s complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeleye(tm)s New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'Americae(tm)s first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshalle(tm)s chronicle is of Fullere(tm)s scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her familye(tm)s tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." e" Booklist starred review, 2014 Pulitzer Prize citation forMargaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall "Megan Marshall's richly researched and elegantly presented biography of Margaret Fuller reads like a novel - but with a twist. Marshall takes her cue from Hawthorne, who called his books "romances" rather than novels, in order (as he put it) to "bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture" while maintaining allegiance to the "truth of the human heart." The result is thrilling. Marshall's keen observations and rigorous analysis are expressed in fresh, creative ways that honor her subject's own imaginative boldness in life and art. Marshall is keenly aware that there was little distinction between public and private in Margaret Fuller's life. She shows how Fuller, in fact, aimed to break down such a distinction, which she felt hemmed in the lives of women. Marshall, exhilaratingly, writes Fuller's story "from the inside out, using the most direct evidence - her words and those of her family and friends, recorded in the moment." She provides deft and vividly sympathetic reconstructions, bolstered by newly discovered documents, of the interesting times and locales - in Cambridge, New York, and Italy--in which Fuller lived. . . . Like all great historical works, Margaret Fuller informs us about the past as it forces us to think about our present. Fuller, who helped spark the nineteenth-century movement for women's rights, opened a path that we still follow. Megan Marshall's beautiful rendition of her life inspiringly links past to present, and is a classic of modern biography." "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading--from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar." -- Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." -- Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character." -- Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the read, "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Megan Marshall gives new meaning to close reading--from words on a page she conjures a fantastically rich inner life, a meld of body, mind, and soul. Drawing on the letters and diaries of Margaret Fuller and her circle, she has brought us a brave, visionary, sensual, tough-minded intellectual, a 'first woman' who was unique yet stood for all women. A masterful achievement by a great American writer and scholar." -- Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World "Megan Marshall's Margaret Fuller: A New American Life is the best single volume ever written on Fuller. Carefully researched and beautifully composed, the book brings Fuller back to life in all her intellectual vivacity and emotional intensity. Marshall's Fuller overwhelms the reader, just as Fuller herself overwhelmed everyone she met. A masterpiece of empathetic biography, this is the book Fuller herself would have wanted. You will not be able to put it down." -- Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . 'Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer." -- New York Times "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character." -- Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight." -- Publishers Weekly "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . Marshall brings stirring historical and psychological insights to Fuller's complicated relationship with Emerson and the other transcendentalists, her journey west and response to the horrific plight of Native Americans, her gripping dispatches on social ills as a front-page columnist for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, and her triumphs in Europe as 'America's first female foreign correspondent.' How spectacularly detailed and compassionate Marshall's chronicle is of Fuller's scandalous love for an Italian soldier, the birth of their son, her heroic coverage of the 1849 siege of Rome, and her and her family's tragic deaths when their ship wrecks in sight of the American coast. A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer." -- Booklist starred review
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
818.309
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." -- Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, daring war correspondent, tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her life's work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall's inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life. Whether detailing her front-page New-York Tribune editorials against poor conditions in the city's prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience--including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard--Marshall's biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving. "Megan Marshall's brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent." -- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity "Shaping her narrative like a novel, Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller's inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." -- New Republic, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography The award-winning author of The Peabody Sisters takes a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine--Thoreau's first editor, Emerson's close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom.
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PS2506
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