Acknowledgments Introduction: Women Conversing on Culture, Society, and Politics--Beth L. Lueck, Sirpa Salenius, and Nancy Lusignan Schultz PART 1. REPORTS ON THE RISORGIMENTO "My Readers Will Thank Me": J.-C. L. Simonde de Sismondi, Civil Liberty, and Transatlantic Sympathy in Catharine Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841)--Lucinda L. Damon-Bach Margaret Fuller's Transatlantic Vistas: Newspapers and Nation Building--Sonia Di Loreto Margaret Fuller and Giuseppe Mazzini: Between Faith and Fate--Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani Margaret Fuller's Transatlantic Journey as a Model for Intercultural Development--Mariarosa Mettifogo PART 2. TRANSATLANTIC EXCHANGES WITH ITALIAN CULTURE Margaret Fuller's "Raphael's Deposition from the Cross" and the Tribune Letters: The Mater Dolorosa's Tripartite Rites of Passage--Joan R.
Wry Veins Full of Fire: Margaret Fuller's Symbols of Social Transformation--Jeffrey Steele Pulling Strings: The Transatlantic Influence of Marionettes on American Women Writers--Debra J. Rosenthal Among the Prophets: Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot in Italy--Rita Bode "A Country of Whose Language I Knew Not a Word": Charlotte Perkins Gilman in and on Italy--Denise D. Knight PART 3. ENCOUNTERS WITH THE ATLANTIC WORLD Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and the Transatlantic Homeopathic Politics of Reform--Cécile Roudeau Joseph Sturge, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Free-Labor Movement--R. J. Ellis Heaven and Manufacturing: Political Dissent in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Foothold in Britain--Stephanie Palmer Bahama Triangle: Europe, America, and the Bahamas in Hart's Letters from the Bahama Islands, written in 1823-4--Elizabeth T. Kenney Crossing the White Atlantic as a Woman Artist--Shirley Samuels Transatlantic Perspectives in the Fiction of E. D.
E. N. Southworth: People and Places--Joyce W. Warren "Spinsters for Ever!": Girls Abroad in Louisa May Alcott's Travelogues--Daniela Daniele Edward Lear's American "Sister": The Nonsense Poetry of Laura E. Richards Reconsidered--Etti Gordon Ginzburg Contributors Index.