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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820691503321

Autore

Steele Jeffrey <1947->

Titolo

Transfiguring America : myth, ideology, and mourning in Margaret Fuller's writing / / Jeffrey Steele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2001

ISBN

0-8262-6275-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

818/.309

Soggetti

Feminism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century

National characteristics, American, in literature

Myth in literature

United States Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Escaping fromRome -- Visions of (Di)Anna -- Lunar Flowers -- Pursuing  Leila -- Creating Harmony -- Charting Disharmony -- Soul  Swathed in Body -- Saving Iphigenia -- Re-Forming the Social Body -- Phoenix Rising -- Bibliography -- Index.