The Hermaphrodite (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers) - Hardcover

Howe, Julia Ward; Williams, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080322415X ISBN 13: 9780803224155

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2004

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Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe&;s novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time&;or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man, is loved by men and women alike, and can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the understanding &;that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them.&; Laurence describes his repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly imagined tale of coming of age at odds with one&;s culture.

Howe wrote The Hermaphrodite when her own marriage was challenged by her husband&;s affection for another man&;and when prevailing notions regarding a woman&;s appropriate role in patriarchal structures threatened Howe&;s intellectual and emotional survival. The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment.

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Julia Ward Howe (1819&;1910) is best remembered as the poet who wrote the words to &;Battle Hymn of the Republic.&; Her literary fame was augmented by her eventual role as an activist for women&;s rights and her efforts to mobilize women for various peace efforts. Gary Williams is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and the author of Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 080322415X
• ISBN 13: 9780803224155
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Herausgeber: Williams Gary
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