Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature

Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature

Wiegmink, Pia

Brill

09/2022

336

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Inglês

9789004520929

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Acknowledgements

List of Figures



1 Introduction



2 Mapping the Field

?1 Abolitionist Literature Matters

?2 Transnational American Antislavery Literature

?3 Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism



3 Friends of Freedom: Female Editorship and Transatlantic Communities of Affection in The Liberty Bell

?1 Abolitionist Print Culture and Gift-Giving

?2 The Gift Book as Chronicle of Transatlantic Affective Communities

?3 Fundraising for the Cause: The Annual Boston Antislavery Fair



4 Gendered Global Geographies of American Antislavery Literature in The Liberty Bell

?1 Haiti: Edmund Quincy's "Two Nights in St. Domingo" (1843)

?2 Egypt: Maria Lowell's "Africa" (1849)

?3 The United States: Elizabeth Barret Browning's "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point" (1848)



5 Travelling Beyond the Slave Narrative: African American Women's Autobiography

?1 Revisiting the Slave Narrative: Discourses of Travel in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

?2 Reports From Russia and Jamaica: Nancy Prince's Narrative of the Life and Times of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850)

?3 Interlude: Nancy Prince's Travel Account The West Indies (1841)

?4 Reversing Slave Itineraries: Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859)



6 Travelling Letters of Antislavery: African American Women's Epistolary Writing

?1 Sarah Parker Remond's Epistolary Writing on Black Freedom of Movement

?2 Harriet Jacobs's First Public Letter (1853) and Women's Transatlantic Antislavery Epistolary Battles



7 Antislavery, Immigration, and German American Women's Literature

?1 Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Schutz' "True Americanism" (1859), and German American Abolitionist Self-Fashioning

?2 German Antislavery Sentiments and the Cult of German Womanhood in America: Talvj's The Exiles (1852)

?3 German American Utopian Communities: Mathilde Franziska Anneke's "Uhland in Texas" (1866)

?4 Coda: Ottilie Assing's Writings on Frederick Douglass



8 Conclusion



Works Cited

Index
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19th; 19th-century American literature; Anneke; Assing; Chapman; German-American; German-American literature; Harriet Jacobs; Jacobs; Liberty Bell; Maria Weston Chapman; Mathilde Franziska Anneke; Ottilie Assing; The Liberty Bell; Transatlantic relations; gift book; literature; slave narrative; slavery; women’s literature