Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published:12th Mar '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£31.00(9781684482962)
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.
"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations—material and intellectual—produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." -- Caroline Wigginton * co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions *
"The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." -- Aaron Hanlon * author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism *
“The volume’s organization, meant to question (and push) boundaries between real and imagined travel, between ‘factual’ and ‘fictional’ accounts, is useful. Its most important contribution is the attention to the intersection of gender and empire as well as many of the authors’ careful attention to colonial subjectivity. Those who read, research, or teach this period will certainly find new sources to digest and productive ways of reimagining familiar material.” * Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal *
"Offers not only new insights and approaches to scholarship on this subject but also a fantastic guide for teaching these works and their larger sociopolitical transatlantic contexts. Especially in its careful attention to issues of gender and race, the collection provides a welcome intervention and model within current research practices pertaining to this and related topics. The volume is truly impressive and should be considered necessary reading for anyone interested in this era’s historical and literary accounts of the transatlantic world." * The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats *
ISBN: 9781684482979
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 20mm
Weight: 463g
246 pages