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Reinventing the Peabody sisters / edited by Monika M. Elbert, Julie E. Hall, and Katharine Rodier.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Women authors, American.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women intellectuals--Massachusetts--Salem--Biography.
- Women intellectuals.
- Massachusetts--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Massachusetts.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer.
- Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887.
- Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody.
- Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
- Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definitions of women's limited realm of influence. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters seeks to redefine this dynamic trio's relationship to the literary and political movements of the mid nineteenth century. Previous scholarship has romanticized, vilified, or altogether erased their influences and literary productions or viewed the
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction: Reinventing the Peabody Sisters; 1. Conversations, Dialectic Discourse, andSelf-Representations; This Is His-This Is My Mystery: The Common Journal of Nathanieland Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the "Art" of Conversation; Declaration and Deference: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary PeabodyMann, and the Complex Rhetoric of Mediation; 2. Politics on the Home Front; At the Crisis of Our Fate: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Civil WarCorrespondence
- Elizabeth Peabody on the "Temperament of the Colored Classes":African Americans, Progressive History, and Education in a DemocraticSystemLike One Happy Family: Mary Peabody Mann's Method for InfluencingReform; Authorizing Sarah Winnemucca? Elizabeth Peabody and MaryPeabody Mann; 3. Perspectives from Abroad; Watery Angels: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Artistic Argument inNotes in England and Italy; Should Not These Things Be Known? Mary Mann's Juanita and theLimits of Domesticity; Queen of All I Surveyed: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's "Cuba Journal"and the Imperial Gaze
- Against the Cuba Guide: The "Cuba Journal," Juanita, and TravelWriting4.Transcendental Reconfigurations; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's Problematic Feminism and the Feminizationof Transcendentalism; Transcendentalism for Children: Mary Peabody Mann's The FlowerPeople; Elizabeth Peabody and the Fate of Transcendentalism; Epilogue: The Peabody Sisters as Sisters; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587297175
- 1587297175
- OCLC:
- 294859523
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