Intercontinental Crosscurrents

Women's Networks Across Europe and the Americas. Edited by Julia Nitz, Sandra H. Petrulionis & Theresa Schön.

14 papers trace 19th-century women's networks inside and outside historical movements and literary texts, in diverse genres, at various historical moments, and from different vantage points. They demonstrate the potential of a woman-centered approach to transatlantic historiographical, cultural, and literary studies. The volume is structured by three chapters: I. Transatlantic Networks of Cooperation; II. Transatlantic Conceptual Networks in Fiction; III: Pan-American, Transatlantic, and Transpacific Agents. - 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. - Contents: 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: 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 Sanmarti 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. XIII,263 Seiten mit 25 Abb., gebunden (European Views of the United States; Vol. 9/Universitätsverlag Winter 2016)