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"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at how gender determines literary style. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing"--
目录
Cover 1
Half-title 3
Series-title 4
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction. Highly wrought style 11
Fuller, fantasy, and \u201cseparate spheres\u201d 19
The fruit and flower of the American Renaissance: reading ornament and reform in American literary history 25
The sense and spirit of highly wrought style 36
Chapter 1 Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens, and the \u201cother\u201d language of flowers 47
The language of flowers 48
Sensual and strange: Fuller\u2019s \u201cliving hieroglyphic\u201d 54
Ornament and desire: Stephens\u2019 \u201cflowery superstructure\u201d 68
Pursuing styles of alterity in Orientalist gardens of pleasure 83
Chapter 2 Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction 91
Varieties of mesmerism: beyond the entranced maiden 93
Out of woman\u2019s sphere: feminist-mesmerist discourse 101
The powers of vision: the blithedale romance and feminism 108
Styles of fantasy: Donald Mitchell and Mary Clemmer 115
The sensuous soul 124
Chapter 3 Harriet Prescott Spofford\u2019s philosophy of composition 141
Portrait of a lady 145
Portrait of a reader 150
Portrait of the author 154
Portrait of a style 158
Chapter 4 Pauline Hopkins\u2019 baroque folds: the styled form of Winona 174
Enfolding \u201cfire and romance\u201d 180
The flower of black female sexuality 183
Baroque plots: romancing the western, avenging the romance 191
Visionary forms 196
Coda. The value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton 199
Notes 206
Introduction. Highly wrought style 206
Chapter 1 Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens, and the \u201cother\u201d language of flowers 214
Chapter 2 Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction 221
Chapter 3 Harriet Prescott Spofford\u2019s philosophy of composition 231
Chapter 4 Pauline Hopkins\u2019 baroque folds: the styled form of Winona 240
Coda. The value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton 244
Bibliography 245
Index 264
Half-title 3
Series-title 4
Title 5
Copyright 6
Contents 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction. Highly wrought style 11
Fuller, fantasy, and \u201cseparate spheres\u201d 19
The fruit and flower of the American Renaissance: reading ornament and reform in American literary history 25
The sense and spirit of highly wrought style 36
Chapter 1 Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens, and the \u201cother\u201d language of flowers 47
The language of flowers 48
Sensual and strange: Fuller\u2019s \u201cliving hieroglyphic\u201d 54
Ornament and desire: Stephens\u2019 \u201cflowery superstructure\u201d 68
Pursuing styles of alterity in Orientalist gardens of pleasure 83
Chapter 2 Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction 91
Varieties of mesmerism: beyond the entranced maiden 93
Out of woman\u2019s sphere: feminist-mesmerist discourse 101
The powers of vision: the blithedale romance and feminism 108
Styles of fantasy: Donald Mitchell and Mary Clemmer 115
The sensuous soul 124
Chapter 3 Harriet Prescott Spofford\u2019s philosophy of composition 141
Portrait of a lady 145
Portrait of a reader 150
Portrait of the author 154
Portrait of a style 158
Chapter 4 Pauline Hopkins\u2019 baroque folds: the styled form of Winona 174
Enfolding \u201cfire and romance\u201d 180
The flower of black female sexuality 183
Baroque plots: romancing the western, avenging the romance 191
Visionary forms 196
Coda. The value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton 199
Notes 206
Introduction. Highly wrought style 206
Chapter 1 Florid fantasies: Fuller, Stephens, and the \u201cother\u201d language of flowers 214
Chapter 2 Sensing the soul: mesmerism, feminism, and highly wrought fiction 221
Chapter 3 Harriet Prescott Spofford\u2019s philosophy of composition 231
Chapter 4 Pauline Hopkins\u2019 baroque folds: the styled form of Winona 240
Coda. The value of ornament: Gilman and Wharton 244
Bibliography 245
Index 264
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