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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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Krueger, Misty (Editor ), Epelbaum, Diana (writer of textual content.), Johnson, Shelby (writer of textual content.), Gomashie, Grace (writer of textual content.), Perkins, Pam (writer of textual content.), Klein, Ula Lukszo (writer of textual content.), Golightly, Jennifer (writer of textual content.), McQuigge, Alexis (writer of textual content.), Cox, Octavia (writer of textual content.), Barnett-Woods, Victoria (writer of textual content.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser.
Temas:
1600-1799
Comparative literature > American and English.
Comparative literature > English and American.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 17th century.
American literature > 18th century.
English literature > 17th century.
English literature > 18th century.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 17e siècle.
Littérature américaine > 18e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women Travelers \ Misty Krueger
  • 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 \ Diana Epelbaum
  • 2. Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge's Two Voyages to Sierra Leone \ Shelby Johnson
  • 3. Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American Women \ Grace A. Gomashie
  • 4. "The Fair Daughters of Terra Nova": Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century Newfoundland \ Pam Perkins
  • 5. Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High Seas \ Ula Lukszo Klein
  • Part Two: Fictional Women's Travels
  • 6. Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt's Emma Corbett \ Jennifer Golightly
  • 7. "That Person Shall Be a Woman": Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female American \ Alexis McQuigge
  • 8. "I Am Disappointed in England": Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour \ Octavia Cox
  • 9. Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the Creole \ Victoria Barnett-Woods
  • 10. Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes's Hartly House \ Kathleen Morrissey
  • Afterword \ Eve Tavor Bannet.

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