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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.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schultz, Nancy Lusignan, 1956- editor.
Salenius, Sirpa, editor.
Lueck, Beth Lynne, editor.
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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