TY  - BOOK
AU  - Argersinger,Jana L.
AU  - Cole,Phyllis
TI  - Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
SN  - 9780820346977
AV  - PS217 .T693 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Athens
PB  - University of Georgia Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American essays
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Transcendentalism in literature
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Transcendentalism (New England)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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