Description: Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies their presence in history, finding new ways to explore their transnational encounters and exchanges.
Brief description: Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK. She is the author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (MUP, 2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited and co-edited over 30 books. This will be her third edited book on Angela Carter. Recently she made a film on Carter's The Bloody Chamber for Massolit, for use in schools (33,000 downloads). She was the co-curator of the Strange Worlds exhibition on Angela Carter at the Royal West Academy of Art in Bristol 2017 and co-edited the catalogue. She is the co-founder of Women's Writing, for which she serves as Editor and runs two Carter websites with Charlotte Crofts.
Review Quotes: "A fascinating collection that ranges across time and space to establish British women's transnational exchanges through travel, artistic production, and various forms of writing. It also explores connections with European women, as well as with women in the Americas and as far as Australia. The meticulous archival research and deft critical analysis informing each of the chapters offers a generative basis for further studies of early modern women and transnational cultural exchange." --Bernadette Andrea, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.