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.
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.
MISTY KRUEGER is an assistant professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she teaches seventeenth- through nineteenth-century literature and writing. She was the 2017 Jane Austen Society of North American International Visitor, has co-edited an issue for the Austen journal Persuasions On-Line, and has published essays on Austen juvenilia, novels, adaptation, pedagogy, and social media. She has also published on Delarivier Manley, Restoration Shakespearean adaptations, and William Blake.
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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
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
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