Transcending

While I spent some time last night looking for more contextual material, I started thinking about how Cornell's plight and Williams' narrative precedes the ideas central to Transcendentalism. Although Emerson hadn't written Nature by the time Fall River was published, I can't help but see how aspects of what Williams seems to rail against suggest an affinity, to one degree or another, with Transcendentalism in particular. It seems as though Cornell's death is, in part, due to her involvement with man-made notions rather than those associated with man's (not necessarily humanity's) oneness with Nature.

Further, I wonder if the patriarchial disembodied voice that speaks for Avery exists between the cracks of Transcendental thought? If one assumes that a more agrarian society relates to Transcendental notions (even if in a superficial fashion), does such an approach if viewed from a traditional Western perspective mean that women have a specific place relative to men? And, if so, does Cornell's job-related transience offend that notion? If this is the case, does the narrative (assuming it supports such a read of Transcendentalism) indict her?