Margaret Fuller, Body and Soul

Like Emerson and Thoreau, S. Margaret Fuller held Transcendental beliefs and endured a chronic illness. The Transcendentalists believed that, even while suffering physically, there is a philosophy that proclaims the inherent and inevitable dominance of soul over matter. Davis focuses on how Fuller's intimate insights into pain's purpose illuminate "Woman in the Nineteenth Century's" conclusions about gender, embodiment, and suffering.