Hungry Heart reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Combining biographical narrative with textual analysis, Gary Williams reconstructs Howe's emergence as a writer against the backdrop of her deeply troubled marriage to Boston philanthropist Samuel Gridley Howe. Among her early writings, Williams pays particular attention to Passion-Flowers, a celebrated yet controversial volume of poems published in 1854, as well as to an unpublished 400-page story that features a hermaphrodite as its protagonist. Williams shows how this latter work, startling in its bold exploration of sexual ambiguities, reflects Howe's effort to come to terms with her husband's intimate attachment to the prominent abolitionist Charles Sumner.
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This is a fairly intellectual piece of analysis, and not light reading, but not slow reading either. I picked this book up because of the reference to a "hermaphrodite" in the 1800's, but that interest faded as it was taken up into a larger story. A Fascinating look at the roles of men & women and sexuality in the 1850's in America. Also as a poet and a woman, I recommend this book highly to women poets (although male poets would be interested too). The book goes into how she veils her passionate thoughts in language that rides the edge of what lay-readers can related to and absorb.
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