Intercontinental Crosscurrents
Women's Networks across Europe and the Americas
Published in April 2016
XIII, 263 pages
978-3-8253-7592-8 (ISBN)
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First presented at the conference 'Intercontinental Cross-Currents: Women's (Net-)Works across Europe and the Americas (1789-1939)' in Wittenberg, Germany, in December 2013, the papers assembled in this volume trace nineteenth-century women's networks inside and outside historical movements and literary texts, in diverse genres, at various historical moments, and from different vantage points.
Considered together, the contributions attest to the potential of a woman-centered approach to transatlantic historiographical, cultural, and literary studies. Very much like the people, texts, and objects they examine, they are transatlantic in scope and perspective. Truly inspired by the idea and concept of the Atlantic Crosscurrents, these essays confirm and emphasize interdisciplinarity and methodological variety in (trans-)Atlantic studies.
Considered together, the contributions attest to the potential of a woman-centered approach to transatlantic historiographical, cultural, and literary studies. Very much like the people, texts, and objects they examine, they are transatlantic in scope and perspective. Truly inspired by the idea and concept of the Atlantic Crosscurrents, these essays confirm and emphasize interdisciplinarity and methodological variety in (trans-)Atlantic studies.
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Julia Nitz | Sandra H. Petrulionis | Theresa Schön
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Women's Networks across Europe and the Americas
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- A List of Publications under the Auspices of the European Association for American Studies
- Acknowledgments
- Julia NITZ, Sandra H. PETRULIONIS, Theresa SCHÖN Introduction
- I Transatlantic Networks of Cooperation
- Daniela DANIELE, Toward a Genealogy of Jo March: Charlotte Cushman as a Crossdressed Icon of the Victorian Stage
- Mihai MINDRA, From "Shtetl" to the Hub: Mary Antin's Networking Palimpsest
- Joanne PAISANA, "Do Everything" or "Single Issue": Lady Henry Somerset, Frances Willard, and the 1890s Policy Dispute in the British Women's Temperance Association
- Charlotte PURKIS, Velona Pilcher's Promotion of an Intercontinental Theatrical Avant-Garde
- Pia WIEGMINK, "Friends of Freedom": Transatlantic Dimensions in the Work of Boston's Women Abolitionists
- II Transatlantic Conceptual Networks in Fiction
- Jutta GSOELS-LORENSEN, Untoward Homecomings: Network, Gender, and Ideology in Luis Trenker's "The Prodigal Son" (1934)
- Bahar GÜRSEL, Delineating Stereotypes for Children: The Discourse on Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in the Works of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
- Khristeena M. LUTE, Between Grace and Grit: Grace King's American Heroine and Her Transatlantic Foremothers
- Julia NITZ, Transatlantic Negotiations of the Female Bildungsroman: Mary Johnston's "Hagar" (1913) and the New Global Woman
- III Pan-American, Transatlantic, and Transpacific Agents
- Magdalena GEHRING, "Old Europe will be rejuvenated by the invigorating sunrays of Young America": Considering the U.S. in Louise Otto-Peters's Woman's Journal "Frauen-Zeitung" (1849-1852)
- Carrie KHOU, Thinking outside the Box: The Woman Question in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) and Kishida Toshiko's "Daughters in Boxes
- Anitta MAKSYMOWICZ, For the Sake of Abandoned Heroes: Agnes Wisla's Work for Polish Veterans in the U.S. and in Europe, 1917-1939
- CARME AND MONTSERRAT SANMARTÍ ROSET The American Civil War Correspondence of Felisa Costa (1859-1862): The Gradual Conversion to the Unionist Cause of a Spanish Woman Residing in New York City
- Margaret VINING, "A Friend of International Welfare": Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge and Welfare Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century Americas
- List of Contributors
