Transatlantic women
Subtitle: nineteenth-century American women writers and Great Britain
By: edited by Beth L. Lueck, Brigitte Bailey, and Lucinda L. Damon-Bach
Series: Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781611682755; 9781611682762; 9781611682779
Subjects: Women authors; Friends and associates; Women and literature; American Women authors; History and criticism; American literature; History
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."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes index.