| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 271 pages) |
| Contents |
This is his--this is my mystery: the common journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, 1842-1843 / Marta Werner and Nicholas Lawrence -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the "art" of conversation / Charlene Avallone -- Declaration and deference: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and the complex rhetoric of mediation / Mark Vasquez -- At the crisis of our fate: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Civil War correspondence / Julie E. Hall -- Elizabeth Peabody on the "temperament of the colored classes": African Americans, progressive history, and education in a democratic system / Amy Earhart -- Like one happy family: Mary Peabody Mann's method for influencing reform / Deshae E. Lott -- Authorizing Sarah Winnemucca? Elizabeth Peabody and Mary Peabody Mann / Katharine Rodier -- Watery Angels: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's artistic argument in Notes in England and Italy / Annamaria Formichella Elsden -- Should not these things be known? Mary Mann's Juanita and the limits of domesticity / Michaela B. Cooper -- Queen of all I surveyed: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's "Cuba journal" and the imperial gaze / Pamela Lee -- Against the Cuba guide: the "Cuba journal," Juanita, and travel writing / Rodrigo Lazo -- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's problematic feminism and the feminization of transcendentalism / Monika M. Elbert -- Transcendentalism for children: Mary Peabody Mann's The flower people / Patricia M. Ard -- Elizabeth Peabody and the fate of transcendentalism / Bruce A. Ronda -- Epilogue: the Peabody sisters as sisters / Megan Marshall |
| Summary |
Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and writers or in the more traditional role of domestic, nurturing women, Elizabeth Peabody, Mary Peabody Mann, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne subverted rigid nineteenth-century definitions of women's limited realm of influence. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters seeks to redefine this dynamic trio's relationship to the literary and political movements of the mid nineteenth century. Previous scholarship has romanticized, vilified, or altogether erased their influences and literary productions or viewed the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.
|
|
Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887.
|
|
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
|
| SUBJECT |
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871 fast |
|
Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887 fast |
|
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894 fast |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
|
|
Women authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
|
|
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
|
|
Women intellectuals -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Biography
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
|
|
American literature -- Women authors
|
|
Intellectual life
|
|
Women and literature
|
|
Women authors, American
|
|
Women intellectuals
|
| SUBJECT |
Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
|
| Subject |
Massachusetts
|
|
Massachusetts -- Salem
|
|
United States
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographies
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History
|
|
Biographies.
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Elbert, Monika M. (Monika Maria), 1956-
|
|
Hall, Julie E. (Julie Elizabeth), 1957-
|
|
Rodier, Katharine
|
| ISBN |
9781587297175 |
|
1587297175 |
|
