Woman in the Nineteenth Century [Norton Critical Editions]
by Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds (Editor)
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Presents an annotated edition of the 1845 treatise championing women's rights; and includes selections from other writings by Fuller, and a collection of critical essays.Tags
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The First Duty of Women. A Series of Articles Reprinted from the Victoria Magazine. 1865 to 1870. by Mary Taylor
CurrerBell Contrast Fuller's wordy and confusing stream of purple prose (combining Emersonian Transcendentalism with Graeco-Oriental mysticism) with Taylor's well-crafted arguments (a quarter century later), presented in succinct articles, arguing that women must first and foremost earn money and become financially self-supporting to avoid dependence on men and on family. (Mary Taylor, incidentally, was a lifelong friend from boarding-school years of Charlotte Brontë and the major influence on CB's traveling to Brussels to study French.)
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DNF at...I dunno, like 20%? I just can’t. Half of it is either Greek mythological stories told in the most boring way, or poetry written in another language. The actual content of her own was dense and difficult to understand. If it wasn’t for a class, I would never have picked this up willingly....
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Larry J. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas AM University. He is author or editor of eight previous books including Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics and European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.
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- Do Not Combine: This is a "Norton Critical Edition", it is a unique work with significant added material, including essays and background materials. Do not combine with other editions of the work. Please maintain the p... (show all)hrase "Norton Critical Edition" in the Canonical Title and Publisher Series fields.
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- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 305.409034 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Women Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Historical periods
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- HQ1154 .O8 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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