Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-466) and index
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
Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
Published:
2014
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press, Athens
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...
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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
