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  • Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism
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Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism Audio CD – Unabridged, March 18 2025

by Randall Fuller (Author), Rachel Perry (Contributor)
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In November 1839, a group of women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women. The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group biography of thinkers and artists who played pathbreaking roles in the transcendentalist movement. Transcendentalism remains the most important literary and philosophical movement to have originated in the United States. Most accounts of it, however, trace its emergence to a group of intellectuals (primarily Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) dissatisfied with their religious, literary, and social culture. Yet there is a forgotten history of transcendentalism that features women who were central to the development of the movement. Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller. Many ideas once considered original to Emerson and Thoreau are shown to have originated with women. Together, the women of Bright Circle helped form the foundations of American feminism.
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  1. Print length
    1 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Tantor Audio
  4. Publication date
    March 18 2025
  5. Dimensions
    17.15 x 17.46 x 2.54 cm
  6. ISBN-13
    979-8228551169
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About the Author

Randall Fuller is the Herman Melville Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas. His books include Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists (OUP 2007); From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature (OUP, 2011); and a New York Times "notable book," The Book that Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation (Viking 2017). He is the recipient of the Christian Gauss Award for best literary criticism, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Rachel Perry narrates audiobooks from her home studio in Los Angeles, California. She is a prolific narrator of romance, but also enjoys working in the mystery, self-development, religion, parenting, and young adult genres. With a background in fine arts, she has studied art and acting in Toronto, New York, Los Angeles, and Second City improv in Chicago. She has been a TV host, performed comedy, acted in TV shows and commercials, and worked in radio.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F47JQ2VJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor Audio
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 18 2025
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Unabridged
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8228551169
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 454 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.15 x 17.46 x 2.54 cm
  • 鶹 Rank: #958 in Regional & Cultural Literary History & Criticism
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RANDALL FULLER is the Herman Melville Distinguished Professor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature at the University of Kansas and the author of Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists; From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature; The Book that Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation; and Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism. Currently he is working on a book about Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and the treacherous world of London theater. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas with his wife, Juliet.

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  • Joan E. Allione
    5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious glimpse
    Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2025
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    I loved and savored this book. I’m from New England and my family descends from the people in Boston so I felt like I was reading about my women ancestors. I’m not sure if I am actually related to them, but certainly they’re all there together at the same time.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2025
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    I really enjoyed this book. I’m familiar with the American Bloomsbury group, Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau but never heard much about the women. History unfairly belongs to men. It was refreshing to read about these brilliant women who were ahead of their time.
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  • N L O
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bright Circle
    Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2025
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    What an illuminating, engaging history of five exceptional women in U.S. history! Kudos to the author for a valuable addition to the historical literature.
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  • Katalyst
    5.0 out of 5 stars Margaret Fuller and her Circle
    Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
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    Margaret Fuller was the first advocate for women's rights and shared her wisdom and insights with other women in conversations at a Boston book store. The women empower each other with their conversations. The book is a fascinating study of these early advocates for women's education.
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