Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite
Editat de Gary Williams, Renée Berglanden Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2012
Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite is the first collection of critical studies of Julia Ward Howe’s long-secret novel that, since its initial publication in 2004, has caused a seismic shift in how we understand gender awareness and sexuality in antebellum America. Howe figures in the history of the nineteenth-century American literature primarily as a poet, most famous for having written the lyrics to “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Renée Bergland and Gary Williams have assembled a luminous array of essays by eminent scholars of the nineteenth-century American literature, providing fascinating—and widely differing—contexts in which to understand Howe’s venture into territory altogether foreign to American writers in her day.
An introduction by Bergland and Williams traces the (re)discovery of Howe’s manuscript and the beginnings of commentary as word spread about this remarkable text. Mary Grant, an early reader, invokes the excitement and frontier spirit of women’s history in the 1970s. Marianne Noble and Laura Saltz place the narrative within the frames of European and American Romanticism and of Howe’s other writings. Betsy Klimasmith, Williams, Bethany Schneider, and Joyce Warren explore connections between Howe’s novel and other ground-breaking nineteenth-century works on gender, sexuality, and relationship. Bergland and Suzanne Ashworth explore The Hermaphrodite’s suggestive invocations of two other kinds of “texts”: sculpture and theology.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814211892
ISBN-10: 0814211895
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 0814211895
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Notă biografică
Renée Bergland is professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. Gary Williams is professor and chair of the department of English at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Cuprins
Introduction
Foreword—Meeting the Hermaphrodite
Chapter One—Indeterminate Sex and Text: The Manuscript Status of The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Two—From Self-Erasure to Self-Possession: The Development of Julia Ward Howe’s Feminist Consciousness
Chapter Three—“Rather Both Than Neither”: The Polarity of Gender in Howe’s Hermaphrodite
Chapter Four—“Never the Half of Another”: Figuring and Foreclosing Marriage in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Five—Howe’s Hermaphrodite and Alcott’s “Mephistopheles”: Unpublished Cross-Gender Thinking
Chapter Six—“The Cruelest Enemy of Beauty”: Sand’s Gabriel, Howe’s Laurence
Chapter Seven—The Consummate Hermaphrodite
Chapter Eight—Cold Stone: Sex and Sculpture in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Nine—Spiritualized Bodies and Posthuman Possibilities: Technologies of Intimacy in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Ten—Unrealized: The Queer Time of The Hermaphrodite
Afterword—Howe Now?
Foreword—Meeting the Hermaphrodite
Chapter One—Indeterminate Sex and Text: The Manuscript Status of The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Two—From Self-Erasure to Self-Possession: The Development of Julia Ward Howe’s Feminist Consciousness
Chapter Three—“Rather Both Than Neither”: The Polarity of Gender in Howe’s Hermaphrodite
Chapter Four—“Never the Half of Another”: Figuring and Foreclosing Marriage in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Five—Howe’s Hermaphrodite and Alcott’s “Mephistopheles”: Unpublished Cross-Gender Thinking
Chapter Six—“The Cruelest Enemy of Beauty”: Sand’s Gabriel, Howe’s Laurence
Chapter Seven—The Consummate Hermaphrodite
Chapter Eight—Cold Stone: Sex and Sculpture in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Nine—Spiritualized Bodies and Posthuman Possibilities: Technologies of Intimacy in The Hermaphrodite
Chapter Ten—Unrealized: The Queer Time of The Hermaphrodite
Afterword—Howe Now?
Descriere
The first collection of critical studies of Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite, which has caused a seismic shift in how we understand gender awareness and sexuality in antebellum America.