Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

247 Pages·2021·13.748 MB·English

by  Misty Krueger, Victoria Barnett-Woods, Diana Epelbaum, Shelby Johnson, Grace Gomashie, Pam Perkins, Ula Lukszo Klein, Jennifer Golightly, Alexis McQuigge, and Octavia Cox

Transatlantic
Women Travelers,
1688–1843
TRANSITS:
LIT ER A TURE, THOUGHT & CULTURE, 1650–1850
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Transatlantic
Women Travelers,
1688–1843
Edited by
MISTY KRUEGER
LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Krueger, Misty, editor.
Title: Transatlantic women travelers, 1688–1843 / edited by
Misty Krueger.
Description: Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021. |
Series: Transits: lit er a ture, thought & culture 1650–1850 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020027638 | ISBN 9781684482962 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781684482979 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781684482986 (epub) |
ISBN 9781684482993 (mobi) | ISBN 9781684483006 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Travelers’ writings, English— History and
criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture— Women authors— History
and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—17th  century— History
and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—18th  century— History
and criticism. | En glish prose lit er a ture—19th  century— History
and criticism. | Travel in lit er a ture. | Women lit er a ture. | Women
travelers in lit er a ture. | Women travelers— History.
Classification: LCC PR756.T72 T725 2021 | DDC 820.9/9287— dc23
LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2020027638
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Tracing the Lives of Transatlantic
Women Travelers 1
Misty Krueger
PART ONE: (Pseudo)Historical
Women’s Travels
1 “ Little Atlas”: Global Travel and Local Preservation
in Maria Sibylla Merian’s The Metamorphosis of
the Insects of Surinam 23
Diana Epelbaum
2 Thresholds of Livability: Climate and Population
Relocation in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s
Two Voyages to Sierra Leone 48
Shelby Johnson
3 Transatlantic Female Solidarity: Two Women
Social Explorers and Their Views on
Nineteenth- Century Latin American Women 64
Grace A. Gomashie
4 “The Fair Daughters of Terra Nova”: Women
in the Settler Cultures of Early Nineteenth- Century
Newfoundland 81
Pam Perkins
5 Busty Buccaneers and Sapphic Swashbucklers
on the High Seas 95
Ula Lukszo Klein