Abolitionist cosmopolitanism : : reconfiguring gender, race, and nation in American antislavery literature / / by Pia Wiegmink.

• Superior document: European perspectives on the United States ; 4
• VerfasserIn: Wiegmink, Pia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European perspectives on the United States ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 335 pages) :; illustrations

Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. Pia...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Mapping the Field. Abolitionist Literature Matters ; Transnational American Antislavery Literature ; Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism
• 3. Friends of Freedom : Female Editorship and Transatlantic Communities of Affection in The Liberty Bell. Abolitionist Print Culture and Gift-Giving ; The Gift Book as Chronicle of Transatlantic Affective Communities ; Fundraising for the Cause : The Annual Boston Antislavery Fair
• 4. Gendered Global Geographies of American Antislavery Literature in The Liberty Bell. Haiti : Edmund Quincy’s “Two Nights in St. Domingo” (1843) ; Egypt : Maria Lowell’s “Africa” (1849) ; The United States : Elizabeth Barret Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848)
• 5. Travelling Beyond the Slave Narrative : African American Women’s Autobiography. Revisiting the Slave Narrative : Discourses of Travel in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) ; Reports From Russia and Jamaica : Nancy Prince’s Narrative of the Life and Times of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850) ; Interlude : Nancy Prince’s Travel Account The West Indies (1841) ; Reversing Slave Itineraries : Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life (1859)
• 6. Travelling Letters of Antislavery : African American Women’s Epistolary Writing. Sarah Parker Remond’s Epistolary Writing on Black Freedom of Movement ; Harriet Jacobs’s First Public Letter (1853) and Women’s Transatlantic Antislavery Epistolary Battles
• 7. Antislavery, Immigration, and German American Women’s Literature. Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Schutz’ “True Americanism” (1859), and German American Abolitionist Self-Fashioning ; German Antislavery Sentiments and the Cult of German Womanhood in America : Talvj’s The Exiles (1852) ; German American Utopian Communities : Mathilde Franziska Anneke’s “Uhland in Texas” (1866) ; Coda: Ottilie Assing’s Writings on Frederick Douglass
• 8. Conclusion.