Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850)

By: Misty Krueger and Diana Epelbaum and Shelby Johnson and Grace Gomashie and Pam Perkins and Ula Lukszo Klein and Jennifer Golightly and Alexis McQuigge and Octavia Cox and Victoria Barnett-Woods and Kathleen Morrissey and Eve Tavor Bannet

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 246 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781684482986
Related ISBNs:: 9781684482979, 9781684482962
Publisher:: Bucknell University Press
Date of Addition:: 03/12/21
Copyrighted By:: Bucknell University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Travel, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Grade Levels:: College Freshman
Reading Age:: 18 and up
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Misty Krueger