Randall Fuller is the author of From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature, which won the Phi Beta Kappa’s Christian Gauss Award for best literary criticism, and Emerson’s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa.
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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 biog... SEE MORE