Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Gudrid Thorbjornsdöttir: First Foremother of American Empire

Chapter 3 Ungendering Empire: Catalina De Erauso and the Performance of Masculinity

Chapter 4 Creole Civic Pride and Positioning “Exceptional” Black Women

Chapter 5 Imposing Order: Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal and the Anglo-American Empire

Chapter 6 The Midwife’s Calling: Martha Ballard’s Diary and the Empire of Medical Knowledge in the Early Republic

Chapter 7 The Birth Pangs of the American Mother: Puritanism, Republicanism, and the Letter-Journal of Esther Edwards Burr

Chapter 8 Empire and the Pan-Atlantic Self in The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield

Chapter 9 “The Fever and the Fetters”: an Epidemiology of Captivity and Empire

Chapter 10 Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire

Chapter 11 “Solitary, Neglected, Despised”: Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality

Chapter 12 The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement

Chapter 13 New World Roots: Transatlantic Fictions, Creole Marriages, and Women’s Cultivation of Empire in the Americas

Chapter 14 Catharine Brown’s Body: Missionary Spiritualization and Cherokee Embodiment

Chapter 15 Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston

Chapter 16 “Her Book the Only Hope She Had”: Self and Sovereignty in the Narratives of Ann Carson

Chapter 17 Bodies of Work: Early American Women Writers, Empire, and Pedagogy