Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

MISTY KRUEGER is an assistant professor at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she teaches seventeenth- through nineteenth-century literature and writing. She was the 2017 Jane Austen Society of North American International Visitor, has co-edited an issue for the Austen journal Persuasions On-Line, and has published essays on Austen juvenilia, novels, adaptation, pedagogy, and social media. She has also published on Delarivier Manley, Restoration Shakespearean adaptations, and William Blake.

• Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic Women TravelersMisty KruegerPart One: (Pseudo)Historical Women’s Travels1 “Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation in Maria Sybilla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of the Insects of SurinamDiana Epelbaum2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra LeoneShelby Johnson3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women Social Explorers and Their Views on Nineteenth-Century Latin American WomenGrace A. Gomashie4 “The Fair Daughters Of Terra Nova”: Women in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth-Century NewfoundlandPam Perkins5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers on the High SeasUla Lukszo KleinPart Two: Fictional Women’s Travels6 Gender Performance and the Spectacle of Female Suffering in Samuel Jackson Pratt’s Emma CorbettJennifer Golightly7 “That Person Shall Be a Woman”: Matriarchal Authority and the Fantasy of Female Power in The Female AmericanAlexis McQuigge8 “I Am Disappointed in England”: Reverse-Robinsonades and the Transatlantic Woman as Social Critic in The Woman of Colour Octavia Cox9 Creole Nationalism, Mobility, and Gendered Politics in Zelica, the CreoleVictoria Barnett-Woods10 Feminine Negotiations within the Colony: Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko and Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly HouseKathleen MorrisseyAfterwordEve Tavor BannetBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Following historical and fictional women as they journey transatlantically and beyond, this collection offers welcome insight into the many transformations-material and intellectual-produced by travel. For some, the oceanic journey might be revelatory and liberatory; alternatively or simultaneously, it might reproduce exoticization and empire. In presenting a variety of experiences and imaginings, this book is for interdisciplinary scholars of gender and also race, colonialism, and more in the circum-Atlantic eighteenth century." - Caroline Wigginton (co-editor of Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions) "The strengths of this volume are many. Foremost, its clever organization illuminates the resonances between women travelers in different modes: as historical figures, writers, and characters. Its coverage offers fresh new perspectives on transatlantic texts. The combination of these features makes this a useful, indeed indispensable, volume for transatlantic studies." - Aaron Hanlon (author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism) “The volume’s organization, meant to question (and push) boundaries between real and imagined travel, between ‘factual’ and ‘fictional’ accounts, is useful. Its most important contribution is the attention to the intersection of gender and empire as well as many of the authors’ careful attention to colonial subjectivity. Those who read, research, or teach this period will certainly find new sources to digest and productive ways of reimagining familiar material.” (Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal) "Offers not only new insights and approaches to scholarship on this subject but also a fantastic guide for teaching these works and their larger sociopolitical transatlantic contexts. Especially in its careful attention to issues of gender and race, the collection provides a welcome intervention and model within current research practices pertaining to this and related topics. The volume is truly impressive and should be considered necessary reading for anyone interested in this era’s historical and literary accounts of the transatlantic world." (The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats)