Toward a female genealogy of transcendentalism

Introduction / Phyllis Cole with Jana Argersinger

Early voices, origins, influences: "Let me do nothing smale" : Mary Moody Emerson and women's "talking" manuscripts / Noelle A. Baker ; "With the eyes that are given me" : early transcendentalism and feminist colonial poetics in Sophia Peabody's Cuba journal / Ivonne M. García ; Fuller, Goethe, Bettine : cultural transfer and imagined German womanhood / Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos ; What did Margaret think of George? / Gary Williams ; Elizabeth Peabody in the nineteenth century : autobiographical perspectives / Phyllis Cole

Transcendentalist circles: "How it all lies before me to-day" : transcendentalist women's journeys into attention / Sarah Ann Wider ; "We have abolished domestic servitude" : women and work at Brook Farm / Sterling F. Delano ; Sentimental transcendentalism and political affect : Child and Fuller in New York / Jeffrey Steele ; (S)exchanges : Julia Ward Howe's The hermaphrodite and the gender dialectics of transcendentalism / Monika Elbert

Wider circles of vision and action: Green exaltadas : Margaret Fuller, transcendentalist conservationism, and antebellum women's nature writing / Daniel S. Malachuk ; "Each atomic part" : Edmonia Goodelle Highgate's African American transcendentalism / Eric Gardner ; Caroline Healey Dall and the American social science movement / Helen R. Deese ; Transcendental erotics, same-sex desire, and Ethel's love-life / Dorri Beam

Late voices and legacies: Required to "speak" : Caroline Healey Dall and the defense of Margaret Fuller / Mary de Jong ; "A woman's place" : the transcendental realism of Mary Wilkins Freeman / Susan M. Stone ; Black exaltadas : race, reform, and spectacular womanhood after Fuller / Katherine Adams ; The cosmopolitan project of Louisa May Alcott / Laura Dassow Walls.