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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.
List of 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 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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
