Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 (Paperback)

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 Bannett, 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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Release date:	March 2021
Editors:	Misty Krueger
Contributors:	Misty Krueger • Diana Epelbaum • Shelby Johnson • Grace Gomashie • Pam Perkins • Ula Lukszo Klein • Jennifer Golightly • Alexis McQuigge • Octavia Cox
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-296-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-68448-296-8
Barcode:	9781684482962

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