Transatlantic Conversations

. Ed(s): Lueck, Beth L.; Salenius, Sirpa; Schultz, Nancy Lusignan

ISBN 10: 151260027X / ISBN 13: 9781512600278

Published by University Press of New England, 2016

How American women authors interacted as writers, activists, and reformers in Europe and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century Editor(s): Lueck, Beth L.; Salenius, Sirpa; Schultz, Nancy Lusignan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499. . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781512600278

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Transatlantic Conversations
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New