Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Antigone

Folklore & Mythology Figure

Documented in Fuller’s books

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

Related

Entities
Iphigenia
Authors
Sophocles

Representative documentary evidence

1841—

The Dial

“Goethe” · Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1841
mentioned
“If it be not possible to enhance the beauty with which such ideal figures as the Iphigenia and the Antigone appeared to the Greek mind, yet Goethe has unfolded a part of the life of this being, unknown elsewhere in the records of literature.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p60

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p43
analyzed · read
“the poets producing such ideals as Cassandra, Iphiginia, Antigone, Macaria, where Sibylline priestesses told the oracle of the highest god”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1846—

Papers on Literature and Art

p34
analyzed · read
“our grief wants the true tragic element which hallows it in the Antigone, the Lear, and even Schiller's "Mary Stuart," or "Wallenstein.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.