Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• For Billy v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Abbreviations and Editions Cited xi
• Introduction - Fuller, Emerson, and the Task of Reading 1
• 1 - Falling without Speed: The Feminist Frame of Emerson's Letters to Fuller 32
• 2 - Feminism in Translation: Fuller's Tasso and Günderode 59
• 3 - Footnoting the Sublime: Fuller on Black Hawk's Trail 97
• 4 - Fuller, Fourier, and the Romance of the Second Series 125
• 5 - Fuller's Scene before the Women: Woman in the Nineteenth Century 161
• 6 - Reading before Marx: Fuller and the New-York Daily Tribune 189
• 7 - Representative Others: Uses of Fuller and Fourier in Representative Men 221
• 8 - Emerson's Scene before the Women: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli and "Woman" 238
• 9 - Reading Fate 269
• Index 295