WorkMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quijote de la Mancha [Don Quixote]

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616)

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Documented 1839–1841

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)1record

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1839—

Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p1, p37

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“his intrepidity, not inferior to that of Le Sage and Cervantes in facing the dark side of human nature [...] His advocacy of the poets cause is about as effective and well planned as Don Q's tourney with the Windmill.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Two references: (1) p1 names 'Cervantes' in the 'dark side of human nature' comparison; (2) p37 alludes to 'Don Q's tourney with the Windmill,' the windmill episode in Don Quixote Part I, ch.

1841—

The Dial

“Goethe” · Vol. 2, No. 1, July 1841

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“Don Quixote and Wilhelm Meister [...] Cervantes has painted the knight, Goethe the culture of the entire man, ? both their own time.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p44

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p29

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“In Cervantes, I found far less productive talent indeed, a far less powerful genius — but the same wide wisdom...”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred Margaret Fuller engages with Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, a text she identified in childhood as one of the "three great authors" she met. She alludes to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's influential interpretation of the work, specifically his equation of Don Quixote with "pure Reason" and Sancho Panza with "the Understanding."

Margaret Fuller engages with Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, a text she identified in childhood as one of the "three great authors" she met.