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 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
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.
Geographic 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.
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