As a well-known editor and journalist, Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) questioned the conventional boundaries that circumscribed American society in the first half of the nineteenth century. This collection of her letters, essays, poems, and journalism reveals a woman who developed a feminist and humanist vision that transcended class, racial, national, and gender borders.

Margaret Fuller: A Brief Biography with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Kornfeld, Eve

Literature & Fiction

Bedford/St.Martin's

The first brief biography with documents of an important nineteenth-century American feminist, literary figure and journalist, a revolutionary abroad and a major writer of the American Renaissance at home. This account contains also selections from her private letters and published poetry, books, literary criticism and journalism. There is a substantial introduction

Margaret Fuller: A Brief Biography With Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

History & Criticism

Bedford Books

Examining the efforts taken, during the Revolutionary War, of Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Judith Sargent Murray, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren, and others Creating an American Culture, 1775-1800 documents their attempt to invent a national literature, narrate a story of nationhood, and educate a diverse people for virtuous republican citizenship.

Creating an American Culture, 1775-1800: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

History

Americas

Amid the battle for American independence and the struggle to invent a federal government, American Revolutionary leaders and intellectuals sought also to create a culture that would unify a territory of immense regional, ethnic, and religious diversity. In a sophisticated yet accessible interpretive narrative, Eve Kornfeld examines the efforts of Noah Webster, Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Judith Sargent Murray, David Ramsay, Mercy Otis Warren, and others to invent a national literature, narrate a story of nationhood, and educate a diverse people for virtuous Republican citizenship. Among the 31 documents following the narrative are early attempts at American epic poetry, excerpts from the first narrative histories of the United States, and commentaries on the place of women and Indians in national life. Headnotes to the documents, reproductions of early paintings and portraits, a chronology, questions for consideration, a bibliography, and an index are also included.

Creating an American Culture, 1775-1800: A Brief History With Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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Countryman, Edward

Sklar, Kathryn Kish

WEBER, David J.

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