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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
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Paperback. Editor(s): Argersinger, Jana L.; Cole, Phyllis. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 710.
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favour 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 claiming utopian possibility for women as a ... Read more
Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favour 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 claiming utopian possibility for women as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346779
SKU
V9780820346779
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99-28
About
Jana L. Argersinger is coeditor of the journal Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation at Washington State University. As an independent scholar, she has published the coedited essay collection Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship and articles on nineteenth-century American women writers. Phyllis Cole is professor of English at Penn State University, Brandywine, and is the author of Mary Moody ... Read more
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