The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
About: This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 1997-08-01. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rhetoric.
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TL;DR: In the Summer on the Lakes, this article, the ideal landscape is described as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature, and contrasts America's more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with the land.
Abstract: Like many of her contemporaries, Margaret Fuller had great hopes for the West. The Western lands, open for America’s future, held the promise of what America could become. In Summer on the Lakes, Fuller sketches what she hopes America will become. Using the landscape aesthetics of her age, such as the work of Andrew Jackson Downing and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Fuller describes the ideal landscape as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature. Fuller’s landscape descriptions both point to a better future for America and critique the values of her contemporaries. Fuller contrasts America’s more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with nature—a cultivated garden—to show what America’s future should be, as it builds westward.
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TL;DR: In the Summer on the Lakes, this article, the ideal landscape is described as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature, and contrasts America's more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with the land.
Abstract: Like many of her contemporaries, Margaret Fuller had great hopes for the West. The Western lands, open for America’s future, held the promise of what America could become. In Summer on the Lakes, Fuller sketches what she hopes America will become. Using the landscape aesthetics of her age, such as the work of Andrew Jackson Downing and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, Fuller describes the ideal landscape as one that is more feminine and nurturing, one in which humankind lives in harmony with nature. Fuller’s landscape descriptions both point to a better future for America and critique the values of her contemporaries. Fuller contrasts America’s more male vision of conquest of the land with her feminine ideal of harmony with nature—a cultivated garden—to show what America’s future should be, as it builds westward.
10 citations