عنوان

Transfiguring America :

(Number (ISBN

0826213464 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780826213464 (alk. paper)

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b416655

Title Proper

Transfiguring America :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

myth, ideology, and mourning in Margaret Fuller's writing /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jeffrey Steele.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Columbia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Missouri Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 330 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: Idolatry, Mourning, and Ideology -- Escaping from Rome: Ideological Resistance and Mythmaking in the "Autobiographical Romance" -- Visions of (Di)Anna: Finding "the Oracle in Woman" -- Lunar Flowers: Exploring the Divine Feminine -- Pursuing "Leila": The Languages of the Goddess -- Creating Harmony: Psychological Mythmaking in "The Great Lawsuit" -- Charting Disharmony: The Flawed Literary Personae of Summer on the Lakes -- Soul "Swathed in Body": Grief, Rebirth, and Transformation in the 1844 Poetry -- Saving Iphigenia: The Cultural Work of Woman in the Nineteenth Century -- Re-Forming the Social Body: Molding Public Attention in New York -- Phoenix Rising: The Transfiguration of Italy (and America).

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Text of Note

"Transfiguring America is the product of more than ten years of research and numerous published articles on Margaret Fuller, arguably America's first feminist theorist and one of the most important woman writers in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Fuller's development of a powerful language that paired cultural critique with mythmaking, Steele shows why her writing had such a vital impact on the woman's rights movement and modern conceptions of gender." "This study pays special attention to the ways in which Fuller's feminist consciousness and social theory emerged out of her mourning for herself and others, her dialogue with Emersonian Transcendentalism, and her eclectic reading in occult and mythical sources. Transfiguring America is the first book to provide detailed analyses of all of Fuller's major texts, including her mystical Dial essays, correspondence with Emerson, Summer on the Lakes, 1844 poetry, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and New York Tribune essays written both in New York and Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Title

Transfiguring America.

Fuller, Margaret,1810-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.

Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

Myth in literature.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.

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Book number

Steele, Jeffrey,1947-

Date of Transaction

20140220050544.0

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[Book]

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