Margaret Fuller’s Medical Transcendentalism

Blumenthal, Rachel

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“…In different periods of literary history, the connotation of literary essence will also change. Therefore, every time we ask about the essence of literature, we will deepen our understanding of literature and make literature research more comprehensive and scientific [4].…”

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The Academic Rationality and Parasitism of Literary Theory Under the Strategy of Anti-Essentialism

Sui¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Education Reform and Social Sciences (ERSS 2019)

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As the root of literary theory, the essence of literature has always been regarded as the core and cornerstone of literary theory, and it is also the primary problem that every researcher of literary theory cannot avoid. Only by clarifying the essence of literature can we start from its basic nature and explore all aspects of literature. This paper discusses the academic rationality and parasitism of literary theory from the perspective of anti essentialism. Firstly, the paper discusses the transformation from literary theory to cultural research, and then focuses on the parasitism of literary theory. The parasitic nature of multidisciplinary and multi doctrine makes literary theory open and pluralistic, and makes it a battlefield full of contradictions, conflicts and controversies.

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The Academic Rationality and Parasitism of Literary Theory Under the Strategy of Anti-Essentialism

Sui¹

2019

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Education Reform and Social Sciences (ERSS 2019)

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Redemption of Matter

Putnam

2022

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Despite her biographical proximity to figures such as Emerson and Thoreau, the nineteenth-century writer and editor Margaret Fuller is not often considered an environmentalist. Indeed, she is more often remembered for her contributions to political feminism than to environmentalism. I argue that in Fuller’s writing, however, an environmental ethics emerges in conjunction with her questioning of the binary between ‘matter’ and ‘spirit’. In place of this binary, Fuller proposed fluidity. This is evidenced in her first book, Summer on the Lakes, a literary travelogue chronicling Fuller’s journey through the West. With recourse to theoretical concerns in feminist new materialisms, I first demonstrate how her understanding of fluidity was influenced by the nineteenth-century vitalist theory of animalmagnetism. I then turn to the ways that Fuller takes her encounters with the West’s watery sites—its waterfalls, rivers, and lakes—as occasions to articulate an anticolonial environmental ethics.

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Margaret Fuller’s Medical Transcendentalism

Cited by 2 publications

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The Academic Rationality and Parasitism of Literary Theory Under the Strategy of Anti-Essentialism

The Academic Rationality and Parasitism of Literary Theory Under the Strategy of Anti-Essentialism

Redemption of Matter

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