マーガレット・フラーのイタリア便り : ローマ共和国崩壊とニューヨーク・ジャーナリズムの台頭

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This paper discusses the last series of Margaret Fuller's dispatches from Rome as being both her finest literary achievement and a valuable historical document. As a correspondent of the New York Daily Tribune, she became radical in her politics as the wave of revolutions swept the Continent. When the French army attacked Rome to get the Pope back, she continued to send dispatches from barricaded Rome in support of the Italian Risorgimento. Through all of her dispatches, Fuller assured her position as a prominent journalist who established a new concept in 19th century American Journalism. Aside from yellow journalism, she set her own standard of having the political news be the most exacting and its commentary be of historical significance. She clearly exemplified her political standing as a republican. With the help of Giuseppe Mazzini and charge d'affaires Lewis Cass Jr. of the United States, she was able to put political documents in the paper. And in following the same European cultural trend, her romantic diction in her articles became stronger, more succinct, and more realistic.