Feminist conversations : Fuller, Emerson, and the play of reading / Christina Zwarg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Falling without Speed: The Feminist Frame of Emerson's Letters to Fuller -- 2. Feminism in Translation: Fuller's Tasso and Gunderode -- 3. Footnoting the Sublime: Fuller on Black Hawk's Trail -- 4. Fuller, Fourier, and the Romance of the Second Series -- 5. Fuller's Scene before the Women: Woman in the Nineteenth Century -- 6. Reading before Marx: Fuller and the New-York Daily Tribune -- 7. Representative Others: Uses of Fuller and Fourier in Representative Men -- 8. Emerson's Scene before the Women: Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli and "Woman" -- 9. Reading Fate.

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In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by gender and desire. Focusing on their exploration of Charles Fourier's utopianism and particularly his concept of "passionate attraction," Zwarg offers the only detailed reading of Emerson's letters to Fuller.

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