Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

by Eric Gardner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820346772
• ISBN13: 9780820346779
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"