Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Heinrich von Kleist(1777–1811)

Heinrich von Kleist is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1834). One work is named, all in Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedMentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
Documented
1834
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

“Kleist his deep feelings, eager powers, and morbid miserable life. His works Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, and Kathchen von Heilbronn and Prinz von Homburg.”
Michael Kohlhaas; Penthesilea; Das Käthchen von Heilbronn; Prinz Friedrich von Homburg · Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections · 1834

When Fuller engaged with Heinrich von Kleist

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Kleist in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

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analyzedManuscript page
“Kleist his deep feelings, eager powers, and morbid miserable life. His works Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, and Kathchen von Heilbronn and Prinz von Homburg.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.