Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
By Alexis McQuigge, Diana Epelbaum, Eve Tavor Bannet, Grace Gomashie, Jennifer Golightly, Kathleen Morrissey, Misty Krueger, Octavia Cox, Pam Perkins, Shelby Johnson, Ula Lukszo Klein, Victoria Barnett-Woods | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
About the book
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.
Editions of Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
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- ISBN 9781684482986
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- ISBN 9781684483006
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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 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.
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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 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
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Is Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843?
Alexis McQuigge, Diana Epelbaum, Eve Tavor Bannet, Grace Gomashie, Jennifer Golightly, Kathleen Morrissey, Misty Krueger, Octavia Cox, Pam Perkins, Shelby Johnson, Ula Lukszo Klein, Victoria Barnett-Woods
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