Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Other Writings

By Margaret Fuller, Sarah Margaret Ossoli, Arthur B (Arthur Buckminster) Fuller, et al.

Book Overview

When first published in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century was one of the most popular and influential works of feminism in its time, selling out in its first edition within a week. However, this major work by Margaret Fuller has not been widely available to modern readers before now. This edition presents the complete text of Fuller's famous work, as well as a collection of other important writings that provide an expansive vision of Fuller's thought. Ranging widely from the Woman Question to the European revolutionary movements in which she played a direct part, her thought prefigures important themes in modern feminism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192830856
• ISBN13: 9780192830852
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

ONE CLASSICAL PIECE OF WRITING

THE BEST AMERICAN ROMANTIC WOMAN WRITER IS IN ONE NOVEL

Seminal early US survey of Women's Rights & Women's History

Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century [1845]is one of the 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.