Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

Einleitung in die Propyläen [Introduction to the Propylaen]

Einleitung in die Propyläen [Introduction to the Propylaen] (1798) Inferred

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · 1798

InferredTitle unambiguously identified by Fuller's label 'Propylaea'. Title inferred: Fuller uses the English form 'Propylaea' (= Propyläen) — she names the work but not its precise essay title.

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Documented 1839

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Confirmed reading

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.

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  • 1838Die PropyläenAttested

    “I have also been studying most happily on Goethe's Propylea—and reading also with delight the book on Language which I was inclined to scout”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838

    "I have also been studying most happily on Goethe's Propylea" is an explicit reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1839—

Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art

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excerpted · readManuscript page
“Second eveg. Read extracts from the introduction to Propylaea,”

Fuller, Margaret. "Records of Conversations on Goethe and Art." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Title unambiguously identified by Fuller's label 'Propylaea'. Title inferred: Fuller uses the English form 'Propylaea' (= Propyläen) — she names the work but not its precise essay title.

Title unambiguously identified by Fuller's label 'Propylaea'.