"<i>Believe</i> and tremble": A Note on Margaret Fuller's Roman Revolution

John Matteson

Published: 2017-11-30

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017)

"Believe and tremble": A Note on Margaret Fuller's Roman Revolution

John Matteson

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John Matteson
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
USA

“Believe and tremble”: A Note on Margaret Fuller’s Roman Revolution

Abstract: 1848, Europe’s year of revolutions, was also a revolutionary moment in the United States, for it witnessed the holding of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first formal gathering for the purpose of discussing the social and civil rights of women in America. A significant step on the road to Seneca Falls had taken place three years earlier when Margaret Fuller, the former editor of Emerson’s literary magazine The Dial, published Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an erudite and impassioned plea for female equality that had no precedent in American letters. Yet when the pioneering band of feminists gathered to ratify its Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, Fuller was thousands of miles away. The revolutionary movement to which she devoted her heart and toil that year was not the cause of American feminism, but the democratic revolution in Rome.

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Margaret Fuller , democracy , Roman Revolution

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Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminism, History

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Matteson, J. (2017). "<i>Believe</i> and tremble": A Note on Margaret Fuller’s Roman Revolution. Review of International American Studies, 10(2). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/6271

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John Matteson

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John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York United States

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John Matteson is a Distinguished Professor of English in the City University of New York. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. He is also the author of The Lives of Margaret Fuller.

Trans/Lazio—RIAS Vol. 10, Fall–Winter (2/2017)

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2017)
Published: 2017-12-17

eISSN: 1991-2773

10.31261/RIAS

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University of Silesia Press

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