WorkJean Paul Richter (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)
Titan: Eine Komödie, 4 vols. (Berlin: Matzdorff, 1800–03)
Jean Paul Richter (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763–1825) · Berlin: Matzdorff, 1800–03
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Documented 1833–1847
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
Continuing the same explicit reading list, 'nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.'
“Voici Titan! I have not been able to get into Richter's stream— I read here and there before E, whom I may call my external sensibility arrived— But she and Jean Paul to-gether were de trop.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I brought your beloved Jean Paul with me, but have been obliged to send him back before I was half through Titan.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“and nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I send you a book of mine, one of Richter's finest works. I think its fancy, humor, and sweet humanity will delight you.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“The “ Titan ” of Richter, the “ Wanderjahre ” of Goёthe, the Elena of Taylor, the pictures of Turner, had not prepared me for the visions of beauty”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XVI." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 December 1847. · 25 December 1847
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“Tell [ ] that I read "Titan" by myself, in the afternoons and evenings of about three weeks. She need not be afraid to undertake it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified Jean Paul's novel Titan (published 1800–1803), which Fuller names explicitly and reports having read independently over about three weeks.
“Tell that I read 'Titan' by myself, in the afternoons and evenings of about three weeks.”
“nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan”
“There is no exaggeration in the enthusiastic feeling with which artists and poets have viewed these Italian lakes.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.