Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 /

Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 / / ed. by Misty Krueger.

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 re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Bannet, Eve Tavor,
Bannet, Eve,
Barnett-Woods, Victoria,
Cox, Octavia,
Epelbaum, Diana,
Golightly, Jennifer,
Gomashie, Grace,
Johnson, Shelby,
Klein, Ula Lukszo,
Klein, Ula,
Krueger, Misty,
McQuigge, Alexis,
Morrissey, Kathleen,
Perkins, Pam,
Woods, Victoria,
HerausgeberIn:
Krueger, Misty,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 9 color illustrations, 1 b-w illustration
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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