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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
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Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of growth, necessarily in private and informal spaces both overlapping with those of the men and apart from them. But these were means to achieving literary, aesthetic, and political authority— indeed, to claiming utopian possibility for women as a whole.
 
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Tags: college, means, women, those, overlapping
Alfred’s Camera - A Collection of Picture Puzzles
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Alfred’s Camera - A Collection of Picture PuzzlesAlfred’s Camera - A Collection of Picture Puzzles

Where is Alfred's camera? The answer to this question will take readers through the pages of this campy and unusual book and into the photographer dog's ten favorite collections—each one a fascinating jumble studded with dozens of hidden objects. Hilarious photographs of Alfred are inset in fancy gold frames on each spread, overlapping the intriguing collections: a tangle of keys, a batch of doggy treats, a box of shells.
 
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Tags: collections, Alfred, intriguing, tangle, overlapping, Puzzles, Picture, Collection
The Turning
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The TurningThe Turning

In the 1980s Tim Winton made his mark with tough, spare stories about youth and promise, of early parenthood and the challenges of loyalty. Now, almost twenty years since his last collection, he returns to the form with seventeen overlapping stories of second thoughts and mid-life regret set in the brooding small-town world of coastal Western Australia.
 
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Tags: stories, second, regret, thoughts, overlapping, Turning, stories, returns