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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
EAN num: 9780486406626
ISBN number: 0486406628
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Page Count: 144
Printing Date: January 26, 1999
Publishing house: Dover Publications
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In this enormously influential book, published in 1845, the prototypical feminist writer of her day addressed a wide range of issues, from the Woman Question to prostitution and slavery, marriage and employment reform, and the European revolutionary movements of the 1840s. A thought-provoking challenge to contemporary assumptions of male privilege, Woman in the Nineteenth Century is yesterday a classic of feminist literature.
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I read Fuller's book together with American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever. I must say it was one of the least enjoyable reading experiences I have ever had, reminding me of some of the obsolete literary styles I had to plow through in graduate school. The prose was mannered, self-conscious and pretentious, much I fear in the manner valued by her Transcendentalist contemporaries. When I read American Bloomsbury I found that Cheever appropriately described Fuller's writing as "turgid, quotation/ridden prose". I do not recommend it unless you are writing a thesis on mid-nineteenth century American thought or on the history of feminism.
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Not enough people read Margaret Fuller anymore. She was the very first great female American intellectual. She lived a fascinating life and died a tragic death. She also wrote a classic of early feminist thinking, Woman in the Nineteenth Century -- required reading for anyone who cares about the history of women's rights. However, this is a book that you absolutely should NOT try to read in a Dover thrift edition. Fuller's references to her own reading and her historical moment are legion, and they are guaranteed to confuse the heck out of anyone who lacks deep background in the study of pre-Civil War American culture. The great virtue of Dover editions is that they are cheap. Their great disadvantage is that they offer no critical apparatus to help with comprehension. And Oh! does Fuller require critical apparatus. Without a hefty array of footnotes to guide you through, you are very likely to find this book opaque and frustrating. You may very well end up hating a book that greatly deserves to be loved. Go for the Norton Critical Edition instead -- it's well worth the extra investment!!
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THE BEST AMERICAN ROMANTIC WOMAN WRITER IS IN ONE NOVEL
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Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]is one of the very first US books that looked at the whole sweep of world history from a woman's point of view. It was based on her article that she'd written for the Dial magazine [which she'd edited along with Emerson]called the "Great Lawsuit". This book is than one of the basic works that formed and influenced the Women's Rights Movement in the US. The famous early US women's rights meeting held in Seneca Falls, NY. came just a few years after this book. Fuller's view of women throughout the ages also provides an historical perspective to the political and philosophical views of Mary Wollstonecraft's: The Vindication of the Rights of Women[1792]. But, this work is also interesting because of its international and cross-cultural perspective. And this Norton Critical edition is also preferable because unlike most [it not all] of the available editions it reprints the 1845 edition. This was the only one that Fuller herself prepared for publication. Most of the other editions continue to reprint later editions especially the 1855 edition which was prepared by Fuller's brother and included his own editing of the text. The Norton edition is further enhanced by a useful introduction, good notes and essays on the work. Until there is a much needed complete & scholarly edition of all of Fuller's works [or even a Library of America edition of Fuller's works]to match the recent complete edition of her letters this is the best available edition of Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
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