Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Explores women's roles as cultural mediators in the long eighteenth century
- Adopts a transnational and transoceanic perspective, within, between and across Europe and the Americas
- Interrogates a wide range of sources, from correspondence, travel narratives, novels and essays to opera and portraits
Part of the book series: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 (NETRANS)
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About this book
This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in the long eighteenth century. It aims to decenter perspectives on traditional Enlightenment geographies, by emphasizing cultural transfers between Southern Europe and the rest of Europe, as well as with the Americas; by focusing on a variety of cultural mediators—women authors, female (and male) translators, readers, travelers, and disseminators; and by examining diverse written and visual sources—from correspondence, travel narratives, and philosophical essays, to novels, opera, portraits.
Keywords
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Discussing Gender in Transnational and Transatlantic Settings
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Women of Letters Across Frontiers
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Rewriting Through Translation
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Mediating Knowledge, Making Publics
Reviews
-Clorinda Donato, author, The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science, and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England (2020); coeditor, Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 (2021).
"Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century makes an important contribution to the expanding field of transnational studies, bringing women into a discussion of the European Enlightenment that has long been dominated by studies of the production by and relationships among male intellectuals. The scholarship in this collection represents some of the highest quality work in the field. It takes the field forward by focusing on women as central to the transnational and transatlantic circulation of texts. Recent research has asserted the importance of seeing the Enlightenment as a global, not merely a European, phenomenon. In particular, the chapters that engage Spanish America speak directly to this new understanding of the Enlightenment and complicate the research by integrating women into a transatlantic intellectual framework. The collection also makes an important contribution with its many chapters on Spanish and Italian women, as the scholarship on the Enlightenment has largely focused on English and northern European women, often marginalizing the contributions of women from southern Europe."
-Allyson Poska, author, Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (2016); coeditor, Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (2013)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mónica Bolufer is Professor of Modern History at the University of Valencia, Spain. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project CIRGEN: Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies.
Laura Guinot-Ferri is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Valencia, Spain, and part of the CIRGEN team.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Women across Borders
Editors: Mónica Bolufer, Laura Guinot-Ferri, Carolina Blutrach
Series Title: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46939-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46938-1Published: 25 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46941-1Published: 25 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46939-8Published: 24 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-5338
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 381
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: History, general, History of Early Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History