Title: Transatlantic women : nineteenth-century American women writers and Great Britain /
Authors: Lueck, Beth Lynne.; Bailey, Brigitte.; Damon-Bach, Lucinda L.
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: American literature Women authors History and criticism.; Women authors, American Friends and associates.; Women and literature English-speaking countries History
Abstract: "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."--pub. desc.
Contents: A flight from home: negotiations of gender and nationality in Frances Osgood's early career / Sarah Klotz -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick tours England: private letters, public account / Lucinda L. Damon-Bach -- Margaret Fuller's New-York tribune dispatches from Great Britain: modern geography and the print culture of reform / Brigitte Bailey -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, starring as benevolent celebrity traveler / Sarah Ruffing Robbins -- "A little private conversation ... in her boudoir": Harriet Beecher Stowe's appearance at Stafford House in 1853: an essay in twelve parts / Beth L. Lueck -- Reluctant celebrity: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, and the transatlantic embodiment of gender and fame / Brenda R. Weber -- Freedom and grace: Harriet Jacobs in England / Grace McEntee -- Great exhibitions: Ellen Craft on the British abolitionist stage / Kenneth Salzer -- A summer in England: the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston and the encouragement of independent transatlantic travel for American women / Libby Bischof -- The lost lady in the world of Comus: Catherine Maria Sedgwick and Margaret Fuller read Milton / Jeffrey Steele -- Belonging, longing, and the exile state in Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot / Rita Bode -- "In its English dress": reading Susan Warner's The wide, wide world as a transatlantic religious bestseller / Sharon Estes -- Emily Dickinson and transatlantic geology / Robin Peel -- American Jane Eyres: Louisa May Alcott's and Anna Katharine Green's transatlantic dialogues with Charlotte Bronte / Birgit Spengler -- "The sympathy of another writer": the correspondence between Sarah Orne Jewett and Mrs. Humphry Ward / Jane Silvey.