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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 privileges of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Argersinger, Jana L., 1957- (Editor ), Cole, Phyllis (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Phyllis Cole with Jana Argersinger: introduction
  • Early voices, origins, influences. Noelle A. Baker: "Let me do nothing smale": Mary Moody Emerson and women's "talking" manuscripts
  • Ivonne M. García: "With the eyes that are given me": early transcendentalism and feminist colonial poetics in Sophia Peabody's Cuba journal
  • Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos: Fuller, Goethe, Bettine: cultural transfer and imagined German womanhood
  • Gary Williams: What did Margaret think of George?
  • Phyllis Cole: Elizabeth Peabody in the nineteenth century: autobiographical perspectives
  • Transcendentalist circles. Sarah Ann Wider: "How it all lies before me to-day": transcendentalist women's journeys into attention
  • Sterling F. Delano: "We have abolished domestic servitude": women and work at Brook Farm
  • Jeffrey Steele: sentimental transcendentalism and political affect: Child and Fuller in New York
  • Monika Elbert: (S)exchanges: Julia Ward Howe's The hermaphrodite and the gender dialectics of transcendentalism
  • Wider circles of vision and action. Daniel S. Malachuk: Green exaltadas: Margaret Fuller, transcendentalist conservationism, and antebellum women's nature writing
  • Eric Gardner: "Each atomic part": Edmonia Goodelle Highgate's African American
  • Transcendentalism. Helen R. Deese: Caroline Healey Dall and the American social science movement
  • Dorri Beam: Transcendental erotics, same-sex desire, and Ethel's love-life
  • Late voices and legacies. Mary de Jong: Required to "speak": Caroline Healey Dall and the defense of Margaret Fuller
  • Susan M. Stone: "A woman's place": the transcendental realism of Mary Wilkins Freeman
  • Katherine Adams: Black exaltadas: race, reform, and spectacular womanhood after Fuller
  • Laura Dassow Walls: the cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott.