Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson's terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of ""Man Thinking."" This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privile...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Primary Interludes; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts; Introduction; SECTION 1 Early Voices, Origins, Influences; ""Let me do nothing smale": Mary Moody Emerson and Women's "Talking" Manuscripts; ""With the Eyes That Are Given Me": Early Transcendentalism and Feminist Colonial Poetics in Sophia Peabody's Cuba Journal; Fuller, Goethe, Bettine: Cultural Transfer and Imagined German Womanhood; What Did Margaret Think of George?; Elizabeth Peabody in the Nineteenth Century: Autobiographical Perspectives; SECTION 2 Transcendentalist Circles.
- ""How It All Lies before Me To-day": Transcendentalist Women's Journeys into Attention""We have abolished domestic servitude": Women and Work at Brook Farm; Sentimental Transcendentalism and Political Affect: Child and Fuller in New York; (S)exchanges: Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite and the Gender Dialectics of Transcendentalism; SECTION 3 Wider Circles of Vision and Action; Green Exaltadas: Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalist Conservationism, and Antebellum Women's Nature Writing; "Each Atomic Part": Edmonia Goodelle Highgate's African American Transcendentalism.
- Caroline Healey Dall and the American Social Science MovementTranscendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel's Love-Life; SECTION 4 Late Voices and Legacies; Required to "Speak": Caroline Healey Dall and the Defense of Margaret Fuller; "A Woman's Place": The Transcendental Realism of Mary Wilkins Freeman; Black Exaltadas: Race, Reform, and Spectacular Womanhood after Fuller; The Cosmopolitan Project of Louisa May Alcott; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
