Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain
In this volume, fifteen scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers' transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education. Presenting new material about women writers' literary friendships, travels, reception and readership, and influences, the volume offers new frameworks for thinking about transatlantic literary studies.
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Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain
In this volume, fifteen scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers' transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education. Presenting new material about women writers' literary friendships, travels, reception and readership, and influences, the volume offers new frameworks for thinking about transatlantic literary studies.
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Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain

Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain

Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain

Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain

Overview

In this volume, fifteen scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers' transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education. Presenting new material about women writers' literary friendships, travels, reception and readership, and influences, the volume offers new frameworks for thinking about transatlantic literary studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611682762
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Publication date: 07/10/2012
Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 380
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

BETH L. LUECK a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. BRIGITTE BAILEY is an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire. LUCINDA L. DAMON-BACH is a professor of English at Salem State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transatlantic Studies and American Women Writers — Brigitte Bailey
TOURISM, CELEBRITY, AND REFORM: NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS AND TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL
A Flight from Home: Negotiations of Gender and Nationality in Frances Osgood’s Early Career — Sarah Klotz
Catharine Maria Sedgwick Tours England: Private Letters, Public Account — Lucinda L. Damon-Bach
Margaret Fuller’s New-York Tribune Dispatches from Great Britain: Modern Geography and the Print Culture of Reform — Brigitte Bailey
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Starring as Benevolent Celebrity Traveler — Sarah Ruffing Robbins
“A little private conversation... in her boudoir”: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Appearance at Stafford House in 1853: An Essay in Twelve Parts — Beth L. Lueck
Reluctant Celebrity: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, and the Transatlantic Embodiment of Gender and Fame — Brenda R. Weber
Freedom and Grace: Harriet Jacobs in England — Grace McEntee
Great Exhibitions: Ellen Craft on the British Abolitionist Stage — Kenneth Salzer
A Summer in England: the Women’s Rest Tour Association of Boston and the Encouragement of Independent Transatlantic Travel for American Women — Libby Bischof
AUTHORSHIP, INFLUENCE, AND RECEPTION: NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS AND TRANSATLANTIC PRINT CULTURE
The Lost Lady in the World of Comus: Catherine Maria Sedgwick and Margaret Fuller Read Milton — Jeffrey Steele
Belonging, Longing, and the Exile State in Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot — Rita Bode
“In Its English Dress”: Reading Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World as a Transatlantic Religious Bestseller — Sharon Estes
Emily dickinson and Transatlantic Geology — Robin Peel
American Jane Eyres: Louis May Alcott’s and Anna Katharine Green’s Transatlantic Dialogues with Charlotte Brontë — Birgit Spengler
“The Sympathy of Another Writer”: The correspondence between Sarah Orne Jewett and Mrs. Humphry Ward — Jane Silvey
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