<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an expression of ecofeminist’s concern for environmental degradation triggered by rapid industrial and technological growth. It deals with her encounter with the external world, and her responses to the rapid material development in America. The article unfolds her concerns for humanity in general by endorsing a simple way of life, the idea which she shared with her friends Emerson and Thoreau, the great figures in American transcendentalism. This article is primarily about her delicate, feminine love for nature that she considered the only sustenance in her life.</p></abstract>

The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an expression of ecofeminist’s concern for environmental degradation triggered by rapid industrial and technological growth. It deals with her encounter with the external world, and her responses to the rapid material development in America. The article unfolds her concerns for humanity in general by endorsing a simple way of life, the idea which she shared with her friends Emerson and Thoreau, the great figures in American transcendentalism. This article is primarily about her delicate, feminine love for nature that she considered the only sustenance in her life.

Ecofeminist Study of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes in 1843

Post Graduate Teaching Department of English RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India

Gender Studies

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The present paper concerns itself with a great American feminist-writer Margaret Fuller. It is a critique of patriarchal industrial society. It is an...

Ecofeminist Study of Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes in 1843

Data publikacji: 28 gru 2012

Zakres stron: 163 - 173

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10320-012-0015-8

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