Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bucknell University Press
- Date of Publication 12 March 2021
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781684482962
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 235x156x15 mm
- Weight 4 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 color illustrations, 1 b-w illustration 195
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Short description:
This collection examines images of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers in historical and literary works. The volume features women of a variety of races, ethnicities, and social classes traveling in all directions of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the people they encounter in their travels and residences.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of 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 Sybilla 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’ Hartly House
Kathleen Morrissey
Afterword
Eve Tavor Bannet
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
