This article analyzes Margaret Fuller's journalism during the period 1846-9, while she served as the European correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. In contrast to prior critical assessments of Fuller's writing, which tend to focus on her nearly canonical feminist polemic, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, I redirect scholarly attention to the formal stylistic features and political valences of her overlooked journalism. The purpose of the article is essentially two-fold. First of all, the article argues that in effect Fuller's Dispatches for the Tribune give voice to a distinctively romantic form of politically engaged travel writing. In an effort to set her own writing apart from the bulk of popular early-nineteenth-century travel writing, Fuller's correspondence is at once historically nuanced and attentive to the subjective impressions of the travel writer, who becomes in Fuller's hands a discerning cultural critic, a figure sympathetic to the work of the activists, reformers, and intellectuals at the center of Fuller's journalistic project. Second, I attend to the political implications of Fuller's sustained engagement with the rhetoric of self-cultivation as a vehicle for fostering reform-minded dialogue in a transatlantic context.View full textDownload full textKeywordsMargaret Fuller, cosmopolitanism, travel literature, journalism, nineteenth-century American literature, Horace Greeley's New York Tribune Related var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.632219
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