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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (513 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820346977
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  • PS217 .T693 2014
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Subject: 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 both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of growth, necessarily in private and informal spaces both overlapping with those of the men and apart from them. But these were means to achieving literary, aesthetic, and political authority- indeed, to c.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PS217.7 .69 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn886112207

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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 both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of growth, necessarily in private and informal spaces both overlapping with those of the men and apart from them. But these were means to achieving literary, aesthetic, and political authority- indeed, to c.

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