Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199743495 ISBN 13: 9780199743490

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present a panorama of the diverse, vibrant world facing women during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. An expansive introduction, along with rich contextual headnotes, makes this an indispensable text for students and scholars of literature, history, and women's and gender studies. With writings from figures like Aphra Behn, Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Jefferson, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, to name just a few, Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions recovers the revolutionary moment in which women stepped into a globalizing world and imagined themselves free.

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Review

Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions succeeds in being both coherent and expansive in aim, scope and achievement ... This original and innovative anthology will transform the ways in which scholars and students understand and locate female experience in this period of history (Sarah Prescott, Times Literary Supplement)

This is an important, revelatory collection ... The selection of texts is also wide ranging ... the lucid introduction lays out the theme of transatlantic feminisms and manages to be both a wonderful introduction to the field and an in-depth analysis of how the "age of revolutions" included women. [The editors] provide clear notes, excellent short introductions to each piece, and a wonderful collection of images ... Essential. (A. Castaldo, Widener University, Choice)

About the Author

Joanna Brooks is Associate Professor of English at San Diego State University. She is author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford, 2003) which was the winner of the Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Award for outstanding book in African-American literature. She is also the editor of The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century America (Oxford, 2006). Lisa Moore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke UP). Caroline Wigginton is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199743495
• ISBN 13: 9780199743490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Moore Lisa L.