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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1833–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Without such ideas all attempts to construct a national literature must end in abortions like the monster of Frankenstein, things with forms, and the Instincts of forms, but soulless, and therefore revolting.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Here is a man talking to Bill about Frankenstein— After getting the story from her he says "a very good outline but where is the moral?— Tieck would have been delighted— Moral of Frankenstein forsooth?—”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Without such ideas all attempts to construct a national literature must end in abortions like the monster of Frankenstein, things with forms, and the Instincts of forms, but soulless, and therefore revolting.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846