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Tropes of Suffering and Postures of Authority in Margaret Fuller's European Travel Letters
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2005
- pp. 377-413
- 10.1353/bio.2005.0064
- Article
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This article traces the prodigal child mythos in Fuller's autobiographical travel letters, arguing that the povera soletta and similar types appearing in her later correspondence were the culmination of the material realities and competitive practices inherent in nineteenth-century travel experience.