Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkAlain-René Le Sage

Le Diable boiteux [The Devil on Two Sticks]

Alain-René Le Sage (1668–1747)

Mentioned

Documented 1843

Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

mentioned
“the American Tract Society boasted of their agents' having exchanged, at a Western cabin door, tracts for the Devil on Two Sticks, and then burnt that more entertaining than edifying volume.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred The novel's demon Asmodeus lifts the roofs of Madrid houses to reveal private lives — exactly the 'chambers of one Spanish city' that Fuller alludes to in the following sentence.