Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-466) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Laura Dassow Walls. Cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott / "Let me do nothing smale" : Mary Moody Emerson and women's "talking" manuscripts / Noelle A. Baker -- "With the eyes that are given me" : early transcendentalism and feminist colonial poetics in Sophia Peabody's Cuba journal / Ivonne M. García -- Fuller, Goethe, Bettine : cultural transfer and imagined German womanhood / Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos -- What did Margaret think of George? / Gary Williams -- Elizabeth Peabody in the nineteenth century : autobiographical perspectives / Phyllis Cole -- Transcendentalist circles. "How it all lies before me to-day" : transcendentalist women's journeys into attention / Sarah Ann Wider -- "We have abolished domestic servitude" : women and work at Brook Farm / Sterling F. Delano -- Sentimental transcendentalism and political affect : Child and Fuller in New York / Jeffrey Steele -- (S)exchanges : Julia Ward Howe's The hermaphrodite and the gender dialectics of transcendentalism / Monika Elbert -- Wider circles of vision and action. Green exaltadas : Margaret Fuller, transcendentalist conservationism, and antebellum women's nature writing / Daniel S. Malachuk -- "Each atomic part" : Edmonia Goodelle Highgate's African American transcendentalism / Eric Gardner -- Caroline Healey Dall and the American social science movement / Helen R. Deese -- Transcendental erotics, same-sex desire, and Ethel's love-life / Dorri Beam -- Late voices and legacies. Required to "speak" : Caroline Healey Dall and the defense of Margaret Fuller / Mary de Jong -- "A woman's place" : the transcendental realism of Mary Wilkins Freeman / Susan M. Stone -- Black exaltadas : race, reform, and spectacular womanhood after Fuller / Katherine Adams -- Cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott / Laura Dassow Walls.
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