Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 151260027X ISBN 13: 9781512600278

Verlag: University of New Hampshire Press, 2017

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This unique interdisciplinary essay collection offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. Internationally diverse contributors explore topics ranging from women's social and political mobility to their authorship and activism. While a number of essays focus on such well-known writers as Margaret Fuller, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, other, perhaps lesser-known authors are also included, such as E. D. E. N. Southworth, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Peabody, Jeannette Hart, and Laura Richards. These essays show the spectrum of interests and activities in which nineteenth-century women were involved as they moved, geographically and metaphorically, toward gaining their independence and the right to control their lives. Traveling far and wide-to Italy, France, Great Britain, and the Bahamas-these writers came into contact with realities far different from their own. On topics ranging from homeopathy and literary endeavors to politics and revolution, they conversed with others, reaching and inspiring transnational audiences with their words and deeds, and creating a space for self-expression in the rapidly changing transatlantic world.

Biografía del autor

BETH L. LUECK is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. SIRPA SALENIUS is a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo (Japan). NANCY LUSIGNAN SCHULTZ is a professor of English at Salem State University.

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• Verlag: University of New Hampshire Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 151260027X
• ISBN 13: 9781512600278
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Lueck Beth L., Salenius Sirpa, Schultz Nancy Lusignan