Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Philippe Pinel(1745–1826)

Philippe Pinel is documented in Fuller’s journals (1841). One work is named, all in Journal November 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
Documented
1841
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Philippe Pinel

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
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.

Pinel in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1841—

Journal November 1841

p45–p47
excerpted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“In the Bicêtre at the time Pinel tried his famous experiment.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Fuller copies a narrative from 'In the Bicêtre at the time Pinel tried his famous experiment of unchaining the prisoners.' The account of the priest who believed he was Christ and was gradually restored by isolation (without chains) matches the case studies in Pinel's Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale (1801; English trans. as A Treatise on Insanity, Davis, 1806).