Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Denis Diderot(1713–1784)

Denis Diderot is documented in Fuller’s published essays, journals, and manuscripts (1840–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Plan for a Life of Goethe, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Essays · Journals · Manuscripts
Documented
1840–1845
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Weitling is made responsible for Marx, Feuerbach for Cabet, Bernays for Dexanus, just as the old champions of Church and State used to hold Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot and D’Alembert responsible for all the excesses”
The Social Movement in Europe. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Denis Diderot

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Diderot in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1840—

Journal 1840

p97
mentionedManuscript page
“276 Diderot.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

1845—

The Social Movement in Europe.

“The Social Movement in Europe.”
mentioned
“Weitling is made responsible for Marx, Feuerbach for Cabet, Bernays for Dexanus, just as the old champions of Church and State used to hold Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot and D’Alembert responsible for all the excesses”

Fuller, Margaret. "The Social Movement in Europe." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 August 1845. · 5 August 1845

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notes toward The Life of Goethe

p21
mentionedManuscript page
“p21: 'Why they had more sympathy with / Rousseau and Diderot!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

n.d.—

Plan for a Life of Goethe

p13
analyzed · read2 selected passagesManuscript page
“Here he first knew Diderot, seeing] the Pere de Famille at the Theatre.”
“his interest in French lite and character, so masterly exhibited in the notes to Rameau's Neffe.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Plan for a Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.