Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843

"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