612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, Books, History

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Fearless and fiercely intelligent, the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fuller was "the radiant genius and fiery heart" of the Transcendentalists, the group of New Englanders who helped launch a fledgling nation onto the world's cultural and literary stage. In this episode, bestselling historical novelist Allison Pataki, author of the new novel Finding Margaret Fuller, joins Jacke to discuss what it was like to bring this remarkable nineteenth-century woman to life. PLUS James Marcus (Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson) stops by to discuss his choice for the last book he will ever read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.2	Hello, she was the radiant genius and fiery heart of the transcendentalists, that collection of New
0:45.9	Englanders who came bursting out of the revolution and the founding of a nation to put their
0:51.6	stamp on world culture. They took it all in and
0:54.7	returned it in kind. Writers like Melville and Hawthorne and Thoreau and Alcott.
1:00.8	Emerson, I think it's fair to say, was as impressive a thinker as there was in the Western
1:06.5	world. Up there with his hero, Thomas Carlyle. And yet Margaret Fuller stands apart. She was so well-read, so brilliant, so intelligent.
1:18.3	They knocked down doors for her. Harvard's library had kept out women since its founding, but they couldn't keep out
1:26.1	Margaret Fuller. She reported on Frederick Douglas and sparred with Edgar Allan Poe. She
1:32.4	went to Europe where she mingled with Chopin and Wordsworth and George Sand.
1:38.4	She also fell in love.
1:40.3	She, the pioneer, the women's rights activist, the author of woman in the 19th century,
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