Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-century American Women Writers and Great Britain

Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-century American Women Writers and Great Britain
ISBN-10
1611682754
ISBN-13
9781611682755
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
University of New Hampshire Press
Authors
Brigitte Bailey, Beth Lynne Lueck, Lucinda L. Damon-Bach

Description

In this volume, fifteen scholars from diverse backgrounds analyze American women writers’ transatlantic exchanges in the nineteenth century. They show how women writers (and often their publications) traveled to create or reinforce professional networks and identities, to escape strictures on women and African Americans, to promote reform, to improve their health, to understand the workings of other nations, and to pursue cultural and aesthetic education. Presenting new material about women writers’ literary friendships, travels, reception and readership, and influences, the volume offers new frameworks for thinking about transatlantic literary studies.