Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199743495 ISBN 13: 9780199743490

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Riassunto

Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. English, Scots and Irish women; colonists and indigenous women; Loyalists and Patriots; religious leaders and scandal-dogged actresses; slaves and free women of color-this anthology puts all these eighteenth-century voices in conversation with one another in an unprecedented archive of primary sources that will become indispensable to students and scholars of the eighteenth century in English, history, and women's and gender studies.

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Recensione

Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions succeeds in being both coherent and expansive in aim, scope and achievement ... This original and innovative anthology will transform the ways in which scholars and students understand and locate female experience in this period of history (Sarah Prescott, Times Literary Supplement)

This is an important, revelatory collection ... The selection of texts is also wide ranging ... the lucid introduction lays out the theme of transatlantic feminisms and manages to be both a wonderful introduction to the field and an in-depth analysis of how the "age of revolutions" included women. [The editors] provide clear notes, excellent short introductions to each piece, and a wonderful collection of images ... Essential. (A. Castaldo, Widener University, Choice)

L'autore

Joanna Brooks is Associate Professor of English at San Diego State University. She is author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford, 2003) which was the winner of the Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Award for outstanding book in African-American literature. She is also the editor of The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century America (Oxford, 2006). Lisa Moore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Duke UP). Caroline Wigginton is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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• Editore: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199743495
• ISBN 13: 9780199743490
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Redattore: Moore Lisa L.