Transatlantic feminisms in the age of revolutions / edited by Joanna Brooks, Lisa L. Moore, and Caroline Wigginton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Joanna, 1971-

Moore, Lisa L. (Lisa Lynne)

Wigginton, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Women authors.

English literature.

Feminist literature.

Women--Literary collections.

Women.

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

Feminism in literature.

Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

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 fro

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; "Let Your Women Hear Our Words"; Transatlanticism, Feminism, Revolution: Definitions; The Age of Revolutions: Historical Background; Women's Lives and Feminist Struggles in the Age of Revolutions; Renaming the Age of Revolution; Our Hopes for This Anthology; A Note on the Texts; 1. Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1591-1643); Transcripts from the Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637); 2. Anne Dudley Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672); "The Prologue" (1650); "In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory" (1650)

"The Author to Her Book" (1678)3. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (ca. 1623-1674); "Femal Orations" (1662); 4. Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1614-1702); Women's Speaking Justified (1666); 5. Bathsua Reginald Makin (1600-ca. 1675); An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Women (1673); 6. Aphra Behn (1640-1689); "To the Fair Clarinda Who Made Love to Me, Imagin'd More Than Woman" (1688); 7. Mary Astell (1663-1731); A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694); 8. Pierre Cholenec, S.J. (1641-1723); From The Life of Katharine Tegakoüita, First Iroquois Virgin (1696)

9. Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723)"The Emulation" (1703); 10. Martha Fowke Sansom (1689-1736); "On being charged with Writing incorrectly" (1710); 11. Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720); "The Unequal Fetters" (1713); 12. Anonymous; "Cloe to Artemisa" (1720); 13. Elizabeth Magawley; Letter to the Editor of the Philadelphia American Weekly Mercury (1730/31); 14. Anonymous; "Woman's Hard Fate" (1733); 15. Anonymous; "The Lady's Complaint" (1736); 16. Katherine Garret (Pequot; ?-1738); The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret (1738); 17. Mary Collier (b. 1679)

The Woman's Labour (1739)18. Damma/Marotta/Magdalena; Petition to Queen Sophia Magdalene of Denmark (1739); 19. Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700-1767); Memorial (1747); 20. Mary Leapor (1722-1746); "Man the Monarch" (1748); "An Essay on Woman" (1748); 21. Susanna Wright (1697-1784); "To Eliza Norris-at Fairhill" (1750); 22. William Blackstone (1723-1780); "Of Husband and Wife" (1765); 23. Hannah Griffitts (1727-1817); "The Female Patriots. Address'd to the Daughters of Liberty in America" (1768); 24. Frances Moore Brooke (1725-1789)

From The History of Emily Montague (1769)25. Aspasia; Reply to "The Visitant," Number XI (1769); 26. Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784); "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth" (1773); Letter to Samson Occom (1774); 27. Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814); Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1774); 28. Thomas Paine (1737-1809); "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex" (1775); 29. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); Declaration of Independence (1776); 30. Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818); Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776; Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776

Letter to Mercy Otis Warren, April 27, 1776

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-045394-X

1-280-59529-9

9786613625120

0-19-987677-0

OCLC:

781628752