Selected critical studies of Margaret Fuller (compiled August 2003)

Capper, Charles. Margaret Fuller, An American Romantic Life: The Private Years. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Von Mehren, Joan. Minerva and the Muse: A Life of Margaret Fuller. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1994.

Steele, Jeffrey. Transfiguring America: Myth, Ideology, and Mourning in Margaret Fuller’s Writing. Columbus: U Missouri P, 2001.

Zwarg, Christina. Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson, and the Play of Reading. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995.

Adams, Stephen. "’That Tidiness We Always Look For in Woman’: Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes and Romantic Aesthetics." Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 247-64.

Bean, Judith Mattson. "Texts from Conversation: Margaret Fuller’s Influence on Emerson." Studies in the American Renaissance (1994): 227-44.

Berkson, Dorothy. "’Born and Bred in Different Nations’: Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson." In Shirley Marchalonis, ed., Patrons and Proteges (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1988), 3-30.

Capper, Charles. "Margaret Fuller as Cultural Reformer: The Conversations in Boston." American Quarterly 39 (1988?): 509-28.

Cole, Phyllis. "Stanton, Fuller, and the Grammar of Romanticism." New England Quarterly 73(2000): 533-59.

Crain, Caleb. "Too Good to Be Believed: Emerson’s ‘Friendship’ and the Samaritans." In Crain, American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation (New Haven: Yale UP, 2001), 177-237 plus notes.

Gustavson, Sandra M. "Choosing a Medium: Margaret Fuller and the Forms of Sentiment." American Quarterly 47 (1995): 34-65.

Kolodny, Annette. "Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century." New Literary History 25 (1994): 355-82.

__________. "Margaret Fuller’s First Depiction of Indians and the Limits of Social Protest: An Exercise in Women’s Studies Pedagogy." Legacy 18 (2001): 1-20.

Kopacz, Paula. "Feminist at the Tribune: Margaret Fuller as Professional Writer." Studies in the American Renaissance (1991): 119-39.

McFadden, Margaret. "Boston Teenagers Debate the Woman Question, 1837-38." Signs 15 (1990): 832-47.

Reynolds, Larry J. "Prospects for the Study of Margaret Fuller." Resources for American Literary Study 26(2000): 139-58.

Simmons, Nancy Craig. "Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations: The 1839-40 Series." Studies in the American Renaissance (1994): 195-226.

Steele, Jeffrey. "Freeing the ‘Prisoned Queen’: The Development of Margaret Fuller’s Poetry." Studies in the American Renaissance (1992): 137-75.

Tilton, Eleanor M. "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Gray Ward." Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 53-72.

Tonkovich, Nicole. "Traveling in the West, Writing in the Library: Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes." Legacy 10 (1993): 79-102.

Urbanski, Marie Mitchell Olesen. "The Ambivalence of Ralph Waldo Emerson towards Margaret Fuller." In Urbanski, ed., Margaret Fuller: Visionary of the New Age (Orono, ME: Northern Lights, 1994), 105-21.