Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Women Conversing on Culture, Society, and Politics—Beth L. Lueck, Sirpa Salenius, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz
• PART 1. REPORTS ON THE RISORGIMENTO
• “My Readers Will Thank Me”: J.-C. L. Simonde de Sismondi, Civil Liberty, and Transatlantic Sympathy in Catharine Sedgwick’s Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841)—Lucinda L. Damon-Bach
• Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Vistas: Newspapers and Nation Building—Sonia Di Loreto
• Margaret Fuller and Giuseppe Mazzini: Between Faith and Fate—Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani
• Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Journey as a Model for Intercultural Development—Mariarosa Mettifogo
• PART 2. TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES WITH ITALIAN CULTURE
• Margaret Fuller’s “Raphael’s Deposition from the Cross” and the Tribune Letters: The Mater Dolorosa’s Tripartite Rites of Passage—Joan R. Wry
• Veins Full of Fire: Margaret Fuller’s Symbols of Social Transformation—Jeffrey Steele
• Pulling Strings: The Transatlantic Influence of Marionettes on American Women Writers—Debra J. Rosenthal
• Among the Prophets: Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot in Italy—Rita Bode
• “A Country of Whose Language I Knew Not a Word”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in and on Italy—Denise D. Knight
• PART 3. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ATLANTIC WORLD
• Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and the Transatlantic Homeopathic Politics of Reform—Cécile Roudeau
• Joseph Sturge, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Free-Labor Movement—R. J. Ellis
• Heaven and Manufacturing: Political Dissent in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Foothold in Britain—Stephanie Palmer
• Bahama Triangle: Europe, America, and the Bahamas in Hart’s Letters from the Bahama Islands, written in 1823–4—Elizabeth T. Kenney
• Crossing the White Atlantic as a Woman Artist—Shirley Samuels
• Transatlantic Perspectives in the Fiction of E. D. E. N. Southworth: People and Places—Joyce W. Warren
• “Spinsters for Ever!”: Girls Abroad in Louisa May Alcott’s Travelogues—Daniela Daniele
• Edward Lear’s American “Sister”: The Nonsense Poetry of Laura E. Richards Reconsidered—Etti Gordon Ginzburg
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

BETH L. LUECK is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. SIRPA SALENIUS is a project assistant professor at the University of Tokyo (Japan). NANCY LUSIGNAN SCHULTZ is a professor of English at Salem State University.

Reviews

This outstanding collection of sophisticated, engaging studies focuses on courageous and bold women who traveled and reported--through letters, articles, essays, fiction, and poems--on their complex social, artistic, and literary engagements with Italy, France, Great Britain, and the Caribbean.--Susan Belasco, professor emerita of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln