Margaret Fuller in Time

Abstract

This essay searches for Margaret Fuller in multiple “lost times”: remembered, effaced, discovered, and rediscovered. It shows how in my biography I attempted to recover Fuller in “historical time” by embedding her life, writings, and lived experiences in the discourses and languages of Romanticism and Modernism. I conclude with a suggestion for how we might understand Fuller now in light of three transcendent concerns of our own time: gender relations, intellectual democracy, and human rights.