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" Transfiguring America : "
Jeffrey Steele.
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BL
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587436
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b416655
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| Main Entry
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Steele, Jeffrey,1947-
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Transfiguring America : : myth, ideology, and mourning in Margaret Fuller's writing /\ Jeffrey Steele.
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| Publication Statement
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Columbia :: University of Missouri Press,, c2001.
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xi, 330 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0826213464 (alk. paper)
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: 9780826213464 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.
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| Contents
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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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"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.
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Fuller, Margaret,1810-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Feminism and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Women and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.
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PS2507.S84 2001
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