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Transatlantic Conversations [electronic resource] : Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Encounters with Italy and the Atlantic World / edited by Beth L. Lueck, Sirpa Salenius, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies.
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature--American influences.
- Caribbean literature.
- European literature--American influences.
- European literature.
- American literature--Caribbean influences.
- American literature.
- American literature--European influences.
- Women--Caribbean Area--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--Europe--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Women--United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- How American women authors interacted as writers, activists, and reformers in Europe and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction | Women Conversing on Culture, Society, and Politics
- Part 1 | Reports on the Risorgimento
- 1 | "My Readers Will Thank Me": J.-C. L. Simonde de Sismondi, Civil Liberty, and Transatlantic Sympathy in Catharine Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841)
- 2 | Margaret Fuller's Transatlantic Vistas: Newspapers and Nation Building
- 3 | Margaret Fuller and Giuseppe Mazzini: Between Faith and Fate
- 4 | Margaret Fuller's Transatlantic Journey as a Model for Intercultural Development
- Part 2 | Transatlantic Exchanges with Italian Culture
- 5 | Margaret Fuller's "Raphael's Deposition from the Cross" and the Tribune Letters: The Mater Dolorosa's Tripartite Rites of Passage
- 6 | Veins Full of Fire: Margaret Fuller's Symbols of Social Transformation
- 7 | Pulling Strings: The Transatlantic Influence of Marionettes on American Women Writers
- 8 | Among the Prophets: Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot in Italy
- 9 | "A Country of Whose Language I Knew Not a Word": Charlotte Perkins Gilman in and on Italy
- Part 3 | Encounters with the Atlantic World
- 10 | Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and the Transatlantic Homeopathic Politics of Reform
- 11 | Joseph Sturge, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Free-Labor Movement
- 12 | Heaven and Manufacturing: Political Dissent in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Foothold in Britain
- 13 | Bahama Triangle: Europe, America, and the Bahamas in Hart's Letters from the Bahama Islands, Written in 1823-4
- 14 | Crossing the White Atlantic as a Woman Artist
- 15 | Transatlantic Perspectives in the Fiction of E. D. E. N. Southworth: People and Places
- 16 | "Spinsters for Ever!": Girls Abroad in Louisa May Alcott's Travelogues
- 17 | Edward Lear's American "Sister": The Nonsense Poetry of Laura E. Richards Reconsidered.
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5126-0028-8
- OCLC:
- 958498076
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