{"product_id":"toward-a-female-genealogy-of-transcendentalism-paperback","title":"Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJana L. Argersinger\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhyllis Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHelen R. Deese\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional 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 claiming utopian possibility for women as a whole. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Fuller's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeographic scope also widens--from the New England base to national and transatlantic spheres. A shared goal is to understand this \"genealogy\" 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 recognizes the vibrant contributions women made to a major literary movement and will appeal to both scholars and general readers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJana L. Argersinger (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JANA L. ARGERSINGER is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoe Studies\/Dark Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e and serves as president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhyllis Cole (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PHYLLIS COLE is professor of English at Penn State University, Brandywine, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eMary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as essays on feminist themes in the transcendentalist movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757867958560,"sku":"9780820346779","price":76.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dab704fd9907dc2215b4319a53ca65c4.webp?v=1780113574","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/toward-a-female-genealogy-of-transcendentalism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}