Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Preface; Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato
Introduction; Marion Rust
1. Gudrid Thorbjornsd ttir: First Foremother of American Empire; Annette Kolodny
2. Ungendering Empire: Catalina de Erauso and the Performance of Masculinity; Cathy Rex
3. Creole Civic Pride and Positioning "Exceptional" Black Women; Joan Bristol and Tamara Harvey
4. Imposing Order: Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal and the Anglo-American Empire; Ann M. Brunjes
5. The Midwife's Calling: Martha Ballard's Diary and the Empire of Medical Knowledge in the Early Republic; Thomas Lawrence Long
6. The Birth Pangs of the American Mother: Puritanism, Republicanism, and the Letter-Journal of Esther Edwards Burr; Samantha Cohen Tamulis
7. Empire and the Pan-Atlantic Self in The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield; Denise Mary MacNeil
8. 'The Fever and the Fetters': An Epidemiology of Captivity and Empire; Sarah Schuetze
9. Women Left Behind: Female Loyalism, Coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of Self; Kacy Dowd Tillman
10. 'Solitary, Neglected, Despised': Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality; Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha
11. The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement; Brigitte Fielder
12. New World Roots: Transatlantic Fictions, Creole Marriages, and Women's Cultivation of Empire in the Americas; Rochelle Raineri Zuck
13. Catharine Brown's Body: Missionary Spiritualization and Cherokee Embodiment; Theresa Strouth Gaul
14. Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston; Lisa M. Logan
15. 'Her Book the Only Hope She Had': Self and Sovereignty in the Narratives of Ann Carson; Dan Williams
16. Bodies of Work: Early American Women Writers, Empire, and Pedagogy; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Synopsis
Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation.