These Sad But Glorious Days: Dispatches From Europe, 1846-1850 [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Fuller, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 0300105606 ISBN 13: 9780300105605

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Margaret Fuller?journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist?traveled in Europe between 1846 and 1850 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. Her letters from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches, soon became moving accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their entirety for the first time

 

Fuller met important political figures wherever she traveled, including those who became leaders in the revolutions, and she actively allied herself with the republican cause. Her letters describe how from her apartment in Rome she saw the November 1848 attack on the Quirinal Palace, which precipitated the Pope’s flight from the city and the establishment of the Roman Republic headed by her friend Giuseppe Mazzini; how she and the Romans (who included her lover Giovanni Ossoli, a captain in the Civic Guard) suffered through the June 1849 siege and bombardment of Rome by the French army sent to restore the Pope; and how as director of a hospital on Tiber Island, she nursed the wounded who fell in the defense of the city.

 

The dispatches, edited and annotated by Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith, are introduced by an essay explaining the historical and professional context in which the letters were written.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300105606
• ISBN 13: 9780300105605
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 356
• Redattore: Reynolds Larry J., Smith Susan Belasco