“Gessner described for us Arcadian shepherds from whose weary and wearisome sentimentalities we were to learn virtue.”
Author
Salomon Gessner
Salomon Gessner is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Correspondence of the Schnellpost., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
- Engagement
- Mentioned
- Present in
- Essays
- Documented
- 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
“The first class of such writings in our new German literature, is formed by pictures of peasant life, not ideal, like those of Gessner, but true to nature.”
When Fuller engaged with Salomon Gessner
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Correspondence of the Schnellpost.
“Correspondence of the Schnellpost.”mentioned2 selected passages
“The first class of such writings in our new German literature, is formed by pictures of peasant life, not ideal, like those of Gessner, but true to nature.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Correspondence of the Schnellpost." New-York Daily Tribune, 27 January 1845.