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The Hermaphrodite

The Hermaphrodite

Howe, Julia Ward
Williams, Gary
Williams, Gary

Paperback

Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0803218877
ISBN13: 9780803218871
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time--or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike, yet can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the realization that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them. Laurence describes his repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly imagined tale of coming-of-age at odds with one's culture.

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