Reviving Zenobia
The Last Days and Forgotten Life of Martha E. Hunt, Transcendendalist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16312067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Randall Fuller (Federation of American Scientists, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-187 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00810 |
| OpenAlex | W3032950734 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The story of Zenobia in The House of the Seven Gables is taken from the suicide of Martha Hunt. Standing at the periphery of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Hunt embraced its lessons of equality for women and its transformative intellectual lessons; however, the intellectual promise of her associations turned to despair and led to her suicide illustrating the darker side of the movement
Art · Art history · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · History · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |