عنوان

The hermaphrodite /

(Number (ISBN

0803204272

(Number (ISBN

9780803204270

Erroneous ISBN

080322415X

Erroneous ISBN

9780803224155

Number

b718600

Country Code

nbdocs

Number

U5002 T013 .0001 -2004

Title Proper

The hermaphrodite /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Julia Ward Howe ; edited and with an introduction by Gary Williams.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lincoln :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Nebraska Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xlvi, 208 pages).

Series Title

Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

"Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time - or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man, is loved by men and women alike, and can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the understanding "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them." Laurence describes his repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly imagined tale of coming of age at odds with one's culture." "Howe wrote The Hermaphrodite when her own marriage was challenged by her husband's affection for another man - and when prevailing notions regarding a woman's appropriate role in patriarchal structures threatened Howe's intellectual and emotional survival. The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm that was otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment."--Jacket.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Title

Hermaphrodite.

International Standard Book Number

080322415X

Gender identity, Fiction.

Intersexuality, Fiction.

FICTION-- Psychological.

Gender identity.

Intersexuality.

FIC-- 025000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Howe, Julia Ward,1819-1910.

Williams, Gary,1947 May 6-

Date of Transaction

20201208104342.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

pn

Electronic name

[Book]

Y