18. Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. A Note on the Sources xv
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. From Allegory to Symbolism
7. 1. Poe 17
8. 2. Hawthorne 39
9. 3. Emerson 62
10. 4. Melville 74
11. PART II. The Foundations of Science
12. 5. Poe 103
13. 6. Emerson 141
14. 7. Bichat, Balzac, Hawthorne: Vitalism and Mechanism 155
15. PART III. The Secularization of Religion
16. 8. Emerson 169
17. 9. Hawthorne 194
18. 10. Melville 210
19. PART IV. The Historical Consciousness
20. 11. Emerson: The Philosophy of History 247
21. 12. Hawthorne 257
22. PART V. Pantheism
23. 13. Poe: The Divine Energeia 273
24. 14. Emerson: The Divinity of the Self 279
25. 15. Alcott: Of "stages of the spiritual Being" 288
26. 16. Melville 294
27. PART VI. Subjectivity and Objectivity
28. 17. Emerson: Toward a Natural History of Intellect 331
29. 18. Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century 342
30. 19. Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance 348
31. 20. Melville: Pierre 358
32. PART VII. Poetics
33. 21. Poe, Cousin, and Kant: Transformation of a Neoclassical Aesthetic 367
34. 22. Emerson on Classic and Romantic 375
35. 23. Margaret Fuller: Criticism and Consciousness 386
36. 24. Shelley, Goethe, Adam Muller, Melville: The Concept of Tradition 391
37. PART VIII. Epilogue: The Question of Representation
38. 25. Shelley 405
39. 26. Stendhal 409
40. 27. Hawthorne 414
41. 28. Melville 418
42. Primary Sources 425
43. Index 431