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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Margaret Fuller"”.
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"In Death Thy Life is Found": An Examination of the Forgotten Poetry of Margaret Fuller.
… recent scholarship that has been performed on Margaret Fuller, very little has focused on the varied body of poetry she composed during her brief life. By dividing her poetic works into three categories – those written to an early “lover,” those focusing on the theme of androgyny, and those …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
In their travel books, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain participated in a nineteenth-century debate about American hospitality. Having inherited a Puritan perspective regarding land and respecting social cohesion, many Americans in the nineteenth century …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… ""weltering styles"" of Catherine Beecher and Margaret Fuller; and the third addresses the national work of both symbolic and physical disease in frontier Cincinnati. ""Frontier pedagogies"" refers then to the various cultural mediums---the juridical codes, volunteer societies, intellectual …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… Du Bois, and Willa Cather, non-fiction works by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir, as well as a scientific treatise by Ellen H. Richards to argue that nationalism inflects the American environmental imagination with a twofold desire for racial and spatial purity, an ideology …
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Women of the spheres: Early American women rhetoricians
… Women of the public sphere includes works by Margaret Fuller and the authors of the Lowell Offering and focuses on independence and equality, civic duty, reliance on scientific evidence, and polite learning and provided women with the opportunity to argue for female education, reform, and …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… Illinois prairie of the 1840s thus appeared to Margaret Fuller as a country that has been carefully cultivated by a civilized people, who had been suddenly removed from the earth, with all the works of their hands, and the land given again into nature's keeping. Fuller's notion of hidden …
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"A More Perfect Indian Wisdom": Transcultural Exchange in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
… as Herman Melville, Susan Fenimore Cooper and Margaret Fuller construct narratives that overturn hegemonic paradigms and participate in a culture of dissent that reconceives U.S. American identity in a cosmopolitan sense. Henry D. Thoreau functions as a central figure in this culture of dissent …