Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

This collection explores representations of late seventeenth- through mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic women travelers across various historical and literary works, highlighting their resilience and the transatlantic world's configuration. It includes essays on fictional and historical texts, national and geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, and more. With an afterword by Eve Tavor Bannet, it offers fresh perspectives on transatlantic texts and women's travel.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2021
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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.

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781684482962