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Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century

Women across Borders

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Editors:
  1. Mónica Bolufer

    1. University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  2. Laura Guinot-Ferri

    1. University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  3. Carolina Blutrach

    1. University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  • 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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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Towards a Gendered, Decentred History of Cultural Mediation in the Eighteenth Century

    • Mónica Bolufer, Laura Guinot-Ferri
    Pages 1-33Open Access
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 363-383
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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.  


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"Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century constitutes a major contribution to the field of Eighteenth-Century Studies, women writers and cultural mediators. It thoroughly changes our perspective on how the Enlightenment functioned and how ideas moved. A prime example of multidisciplinary research, it deftly combines transmedia studies, translation studies, cultural studies, book history, and material culture to document platforms of exchange and interaction among women that reflected new forms of sociability and the circulation of knowledge beyond elite spaces.  In his ground-breaking Placing the Enlightenment, Charles Withers’ intention to chart enlightened flows of knowledge through the geography of Enlightenment is fulfilled in this volume and expanded by adding the dimension of gender. The new knowledge about the long eighteenth century produced here forces us to confront old tropes and revisit studiesand assumptions that have been proven to be erroneous. This book is destined to become a classic and a beacon."


-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

  • University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Mónica Bolufer, Laura Guinot-Ferri, Carolina Blutrach

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.

Carolina Blutrach is Senior 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

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