My Heart Is a Large Kingdom

Robert N. Hudspeth is Professor of English at the University of Redlands. He is the author of Ellery Channing and the editor of the six-volume Letters of Margaret Fuller, also available from Cornell, from which this selection is drawn.

A splendid selection of letters.(Kirkus Reviews) Hudspeth's clever spirit rapping serves to remind us that Fuller remains obscure not only to most American citizens but also to many serious scholars of American literature.... Only scholarship as ambitious and accomplished as Hudspeth's can restore Fuller's place in what Emerson called an 'essential line of American history.'- Christina Zwarg, Haverford College (The New England Quarterly) Hudspeth's selection of Margaret Fuller's letters is likely to win her new readers and admirers.... Had she survived, her public writings might have grown more like her private letters, capable of touching readers' emotions as well as their intellects. Perhaps the tragic story revealed in these letters will move Margaret Fuller beyond the textbooks at last.- Elaine Showalter (The Wilson Quarterly) In My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller, Hudspeth has carved an elegant single volume of letters out of the complete and authoritative six that he has already edited. Hudspeth is a scholar's scholar: meticulous, unobtrusive, indefatigable. And in My Heart is a Large Kingdom, he reveals that he also has a novelist's eye.... Thanks to Hudspeth's scrupulous edition, it is easier to meet the private Fuller than ever before.- Caleb Crain (The New York Review of Books) This selection of letters draws a comprehensive and balanced picture of the transcendentalist... Robert N. Hudspeth provides very brief and exceedingly helpful biographical sketches of the correspondents... This volume is an excellent alternative for academic and public libraries that were unable to afford the larger work.(Library Journal) This volume of selections from the larger oeuvre will make Fuller accessible to a larger number of readers. Specialists and general readers with an interest in 19th-century American culture alike owe a debt to Hudspeth for this welcome contribution to scholarship.(Publishers Weekly)