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Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism
By Phyllis Cole
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Description
Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. Cole discovers a previously unexamined Emerson tradition of fervent piety in the ancestors' own writing and Mary's preservation of their memory. She also examines the position of a woman in this patriarchal family. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she also refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker.
Cole's biography explores this reading and writing as both a woman's vocation and a gift to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Helping to raise her nephews after their father's death, Mary Moody Emerson urged Waldo the college student to seek solitude in nature and become a divine poet. Cole's pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson's heretofore unknown texts to her nephew's major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition.
Product details
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 404
- Release Date:
- 1998-02-26
- Publication Date:
- 1998-02-01
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0195039491
- ISBN13:
- 9780195039498
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 804 g
- Height:
- 15.7 cm
- Width:
- 23.5 cm
- Thickness:
- 2.8 cm
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