Description
Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies their presence in history, finding new ways to explore their transnational encounters and exchanges.
Providing a rich introduction to the topic of women's transnational interactions, the essays in this book build a diverse picture of female engagement with the wider world and consider how women interpreted, influenced, or transferred culture and ideas around the globe.
Examining figures such as Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bonaparte and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, this book looks at novels, memoirs, poetry, translations, travel writing and plays, as well as considering the ways in which women's public lives have been 'written' in music, portraits and printed images, and their roles in the international exchange of art and material culture.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK) and Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK)
Prologue. Power
Postcard 1: Queen Mary I and La Peregrina, Valerie Schutte (independent scholar, US)
1. Maria Theresa and Catherine II: Women rulers transmitting unexpected gender notions far beyond their realms, Ruth Dawson (University of Hawaii at Manoa, US)
Part 1. Culture
Postcard 2: The 188-page letter-memoir: Mary Anne Canning's life writing as a defense of her motherhood, Rachel Bynoth (Bath Spa University, UK)
2. Imagining England: Recovering Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's Memoirs of the court of England (1707), Daisy Winter(Northumbria University, UK)
3. The racial politics of the Chilean family in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in Chile (1824), Valentina Aparicio (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
4. “Today, two vent'rous females spread the sail”: The presence of female travelers in the works of Mariana Starke, Eva Lippold (University of Reading, UK)
Part 2. Knowledge
Postcard 3: “A new world of ideas”: Knowledge exchange in Helen Maria Williams's translation of Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative (1814–29), Louise Duckling (independent scholar, UK)
5. Madeleine de Scudéry, Aphra Behn, and translation: Using the “Carte de Tendre” for cross-channel communication of women's ideas, Amelia Mills (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
6. “Suns, wich to some other Worlds give Light”: Transnational philosophies of the universe in Margaret Cavendish's poems and letters, Masuda Qureshi independent scholar, UK)
7. Science, art, and knowledge: Nancy Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft and the illustration of Cuban flora, Elisa Garrido(Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Part 3. Art
Postcard 4: Collecting travel memories: Charlotte Bonaparte's family album, Arlene Leis (independent scholar, UK)
8. Aletheia Talbot and the art of Italy: England's first female collector, Breeze Barrington (independent scholar, UK)
9. Back through time and beyond Britain: Revealing polytheistic imagination and British imperial resolve in Eleanor Coade's Artificial Stone products, 1769–1821, Miriam al Jamil (independent scholar, UK)
Part 4. Music
Postcard 5: Mrs Macglashan of Jamaica, Andrew Bull (independent scholar, UK)
10. “quite different from what it is abroad”: Elizabeth Wynne's musical exchanges, Penelope Cave (independent scholar, UK)
11. The Murrays of Warrawang: Scots in Australia, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK)
Epilogue
Postcard 6: Felicia Hemans, the Monument of Zalongo, and the “dance” of a moment in history, Trijit Acharyya (independent scholar, India)
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
