Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 1684482976, 9781684482979

This important new collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic

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Table of contents :
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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