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Title Transatlantic women travelers, 1688-1843 / edited by Misty Krueger
Published New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2021

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Series Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser
Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser
Contents 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
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
Analysis 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
American literature
American literature -- Women authors
Comparative literature -- American and English
Comparative literature -- English and American
English literature
English literature -- Women authors
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author 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
ISBN 168448300X
9781684483006