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Margaret Fuller, America's First Transnational Romantic

Participating in the 1830 and the 1840s in the Transcendentalists’ calls for the creation of a national American literature, Margaret Fuller imbues a nationalist literary movement with cosmopolitan and international tendencies, already subsumed in the transnational aesthetics pertaining to the Romantic movement. Further enabling a “cultural transfer” by her “Conversations, ” her editorial work and translations of key texts of Romantic sensibility (especially from German and Fuller’s favorite author, J.W. von Goethe), Fuller ambitiously attempts to de-provincialize American culture. Other facets of her biography, especially her stay in New York as a first woman editor and columnist of the New York Daily Tribune (1844 – 46), and her dispatches from Europe in the midst of the 1848 Revolutions which she witnessed first-hand in Italy and Rome, place Fuller in a unique position to merge her aesthetic concerns with social and political issues and so to achieve their fruitful synthesis in an international setting to which she was fully committed. In the process she has become a truly “cosmopolitan intellectual” (Capper). Considering Fuller’s contributions allows us to shift a perspective on so-called “classic American literature” and place it more consequentially in a transnational perspective, as well as to reconsider the ways nineteenth-century American culture was riddled with transnational influences and currents.

Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalism, Romanticism, transnationalism, the 1848 Revolutions

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