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Toward a female genealogy of transcendentalism / edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole ; contributors, Katherine Adams [and sixteen others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American essays--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American essays.
- Transcendentalism in literature.
- Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Transcendentalism (New England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (513 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first large-scale, collaborative study of women's voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Many of its seventeen distinguished scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts, shedding light on female contributions.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-4677-2
- 0-8203-4697-7
- OCLC:
- 886112207
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