Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American

Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World (Becoming Modern: New 19th Century Studies)

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 womenâ€™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 wideâ€”to Italy, France, Great Britain, and the Bahamasâ€”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.

Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Country USA
Brand University of New Hampshire Press
Manufacturer Univ Of New Hampshire Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781512600261
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of New Hampshire Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of New Hampshire Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781512600261
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Transatlantic Conversations: Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World (Becoming Modern: New 19th Century Studies)