Toward a Female Genealogy of TranscendentalismAuthor :
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Published : Saturday 30 August 2014
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Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emersonâ?Ts terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favour of the individual power of â?oMan Thinking.â?? 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 whole. Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism is a project of both archaeology and reinterpretation. Many of its seventeen distinguished and rising scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts. First quickened by the 2010 bicentennial of Margaret Fullerâ?Ts birth, the project reaches beyond Fuller to her female predecessors, contemporaries, and successors throughout the nineteenth century who contributed to or grew from the transcendentalist movement. Geographic scope also widens - from the New England base to national and transatlantic spheres. A shared goal is to understand this â?ogenealogyâ?? within a larger history of American women writers; no absolute boundaries divide idealism from sentiment, romantics from realists, or white discourse from black. Primary-text interludes invite readers into the ongoing task of discovering and interpreting transcendentally affiliated women. This collection recognises the vibrant contributions women made to a major literary movement and will appeal to both scholars and general readers.
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