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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Primary Interludes
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Texts
Introduction
SECTION 1 Early Voices, Origins, Influences
“Let me do nothing smale”: Mary Moody Emerson and Women’s “Talking” Manuscripts
“With the Eyes That Are Given Me”: Early Transcendentalism and Feminist Colonial Poetics in Sophia Peabody’s Cuba Journal
Fuller, Goethe, Bettine: Cultural Transfer and Imagined German Womanhood
What Did Margaret Think of George?
Elizabeth Peabody in the Nineteenth Century: Autobiographical Perspectives
SECTION 2 Transcendentalist Circles
“How It All Lies before Me To-day”: Transcendentalist Women’s Journeys into Attention
“We have abolished domestic servitude”: Women and Work at Brook Farm
Sentimental Transcendentalism and Political Affect: Child and Fuller in New York
(S)exchanges: Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Gender Dialectics of Transcendentalism
SECTION 3 Wider Circles of Vision and Action
Green Exaltadas: Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalist Conservationism, and Antebellum Women’s Nature Writing
“Each Atomic Part”: Edmonia Goodelle Highgate’s African American Transcendentalism
Caroline Healey Dall and the American Social Science Movement
Transcendental Erotics, Same-Sex Desire, and Ethel’s Love-Life
SECTION 4 Late Voices and Legacies
Required to “Speak”: Caroline Healey Dall and the Defense of Margaret Fuller
“A Woman’s Place”: The Transcendental Realism of Mary Wilkins Freeman
Black Exaltadas: Race, Reform, and Spectacular Womanhood after Fuller
The Cosmopolitan Project of Louisa May Alcott
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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