false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177300140m/693141.jpg 693141 2 <div>Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe&#8217;s novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time&#8212;or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man, is loved by men and women alike, and can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the understanding &#8220;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.&#8221; 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&#8217;s culture. <br><br>Howe wrote <i>The Hermaphrodite</i> when her own marriage was challenged by her husband&#8217;s affection for another man&#8212;and when prevailing notions regarding a woman&#8217;s appropriate role in patriarchal structures threatened Howe&#8217;s intellectual and emotional survival. The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment.<br><br></div> 679470 1 10 2004 The Hermaphrodite (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers) total:13|5:2|4:5|3:4|2:2|1:0| 13 46 24 4 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 11:44:31 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 14 11:55:37 -0800 2008
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