Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 / ed. by Misty Krueger.
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TextSeries: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850Publisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) : 9 color illustrations, 1 b-w illustrationContent type: - 9781684483006
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 17th century
- American literature -- 18th century
- Comparative literature -- American and English
- Comparative literature -- English and American
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English literature -- 17th century
- English literature -- 18th century
- English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Travel in literature
- Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism
- Women literature
- Women travelers in literature
- Women travelers -- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- seafaring, pirates, women writers, travel, transatlanticism, late seventeenth century, mid-nineteenth-century, transatlantic women travelers, Atlantic, mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, freedom, subjugation, capture, enslavement, historical, national, geographic location, racial, ethnic identities, The Female American, The Woman of Colour, transatlantic world, Intersectional, Sierra Leone, eighteenth century, global travel, local preservation, climate, population, Settler Cultures, Newfoundland, High seas, Female Suffering, Matriarchal Authority, England, Gendered Politics, Jane Austen, Maria Nugent, Aphra Behn, Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Maria Falconbridge, Flora Tristan, Frances Calderon de la Barca, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Unca Eliza Winkfield, Leonora Sansay, Phebe Gibbes, Susan Smith, Mary Elizabeth Brenton, Anne Aplin, Henrietta Prescott, Frances Simpson, Mrs Selby, Emma Corbett, Imoinda, Olivia Fairfield, Sophia Goldborne
- 810.992870904 23
- PR756.T72 T725 2021
- online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers -- Contributors -- PART ONE : (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels -- 1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sibylla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam -- 2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone -- 3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women -- 4 “The Fair Daughters of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland -- 5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas -- PART TWO : Fictional Women’s Travels -- 6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma Corbett -- 7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American -- 8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour -- 9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole -- 10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’s Hartly House -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across a range of historical and literary works. While at one time transatlantic studies concentrated predominantly on men’s travels, this volume highlights the resilience of women who ventured voluntarily and by force across the Atlantic—some seeking mobility, adventure, knowledge, wealth, and freedom, and others surviving subjugation, capture, and enslavement. The essays gathered here concern themselves with the fictional and the historical, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and the configuration of the transatlantic world in increasingly taught texts such as The Female American and The Woman of Colour, as well as less familiar material such as Merian’s writing on the insects of Surinam and Falconbridge’s travels to Sierra Leone. Intersectional in its approach, and with an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, this essential collection will prove indispensable as it provides fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts and women’s travel therein across the long eighteenth century.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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