ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Emerson and Margaret Fuller founded The Dial (1840–44), the prototypal “little magazine” wherein some of the best writings by minor Transcendentalists appeared.

Detailed explanation-2: -Publication History The Dial was established in 1840 as a Transcendentalist magazine, edited by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It published four volumes in this incarnation, ceasing in 1844.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form, from 1840 to 1844, it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and literary criticism magazine.

Detailed explanation-4: -Margaret Fuller was born on this day–May 23, 1810. She is best known as an American journalist, editor, writer, literary critic, feminist, and women’s rights advocate whose ideas were ahead of her time.

Detailed explanation-5: -1840-1844 – The Dial, published in Boston and Concord, is launched as the principal journal of the Transcendentalists. Bronson Alcott proposes the title to suggest a sundial. It is edited by Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson.