Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. Stéphanie Durrans Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France Based on extensive archival research that was carried out on both sides of the Atlantic, Sirpa Salenius’s An Abolitionist Abroad is a much needed addition to our understanding of the complex transatlantic networks that developed throughout the nineteenth century. This work is primarily concerned..

Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe

Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. Stéphanie Durrans Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France Based on extensive archival research that was carried out on both sides of the Atlantic, Sirpa Salenius’s An Abolitionist Abroad is a much needed addition to our understanding of the complex transatlantic networks that developed throughout the nineteenth century. This work is primarily concerned..

Introduction. Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness

Throughout the nineteenth century, as underlined by Nancy Cott in The Bonds of Womanhood, “the central convention of domesticity was the contrast between the home and the world” (64). The tension between private and public no doubt informs most of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s work and will be addressed from many different angles by the contributors to this special issue. As a middle-class white woman who lived with her husband and extended family on the beautiful premises of Deer Island, Massa..

American Women Writers Abroad: Myth and Reality

Be they explorers, adventurers, travellers, exiles or expatriates, scores of women have broken free from the domestic sphere to which a male-dominated society would have them bound and recorded their impressions of the wider world in their writings or used them as artistic material. For a long time, though, British Victorian women’s literature remained the almost exclusive focus of critical inquiry while American women writers’ contribution to this field was by and large neglected. This gap i..

Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth, eds. Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. With an introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt

Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth, eds. Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. With an introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt New York: University of Rochester Press, 2013. Pp. 256. ISBN: 9781580464253 (Hardback) Stéphanie Durrans As we are approaching the centennial of the 19th amendment that gave American women the right to vote, we would do well to remember that this hard-earned victory was the outcome of many decades of struggle against various forms of gender inequality led b..

L’étrangeté de la langue dans “La Belle Zoraïde“ et The Awakening de Kate Chopin

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