Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 /

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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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Other Authors: Barnett-Woods, Victoria (writer of textual content.), Cox, Octavia (writer of textual content.), McQuigge, Alexis (writer of textual content.), Golightly, Jennifer (writer of textual content.), Klein, Ula Lukszo (writer of textual content.), Perkins, Pam (writer of textual content.), Gomashie, Grace (writer of textual content.), Johnson, Shelby (writer of textual content.), Epelbaum, Diana (writer of textual content.), Krueger, Misty (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
English literature > Women authors.
English literature.
Comparative literature > English and American.
Comparative literature > American and English.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature.
English literature > 18th century.
English literature > 17th century.
American literature > 18th century.
American literature > 17th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 pages).
ISBN:9781684483006

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