Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion. (4 vols.)
A Complete Run
Fuller, Sarah Margaret and Ralph Waldo Emerson, editors. The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, 1841-44.
4 vols., 8vo., 16 issues, all published; some foxing; small piece torn from inner margin of title of Vol. 4; closed tear to the title and table of contents of Vol. 1; spine off and some external wear to Vol. 4; some moderate wear to the other 3 vols.; half-calf and marbled paper-covered boards.
A complete run of the short-lived but highly influential organ of the Transcendentalist movement; 300-500 copies each issue. The Dial, founded by Theodore Parker, Bronson Alcott, Orested Brownson, Fuller and Emerson, it was edited by Fuller for two years and later by Emerson, with the assistance of Henry David Thoreau. Though it had a relatively short life, during that time it was a well-respected exponent of “literary, philosophic and religious thought.” One issue includes Fuller’s well-known feminist argument: “The Great Lawsuit: Man Versus Men and Women Versus Women,” which she later expanded into her Women of the 19th-century.
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