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

Preface; Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato
Introduction; Marion Rust
1. Gudrid Thorbjornsdöttir: First Foremother of American Empire; Annette Kolodny
2. Ungendering Empire: Catalina de Erauso and the Performance of Masculinity; Cathy Rex
3. Creole Civic Pride and Positioning "Exceptional" Black Women; Joan Bristol and Tamara Harvey
4. Imposing Order: Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal and the Anglo-American Empire; Ann M. Brunjes
5. The Midwife's Calling: Martha Ballard's Diary and the Empire of Medical Knowledge in the Early Republic; Thomas Lawrence Long
6. The Birth Pangs of the American Mother: Puritanism, Republicanism, and the Letter-Journal of Esther Edwards Burr; Samantha Cohen Tamulis
7. Empire and the Pan-Atlantic Self in The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield; Denise Mary MacNeil
8. 'The Fever and the Fetters': An Epidemiology of Captivity and Empire; Sarah Schuetze
9. Women Left Behind: Female Loyalism, Coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of Self; Kacy Dowd Tillman
10. 'Solitary, Neglected, Despised': Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality; Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha
11. The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement; Brigitte Fielder
12. New World Roots: Transatlantic Fictions, Creole Marriages, and Women's Cultivation of Empire in the Americas; Rochelle Raineri Zuck
13. Catharine Brown's Body: Missionary Spiritualization and Cherokee Embodiment; Theresa Strouth Gaul
14. Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston; Lisa M. Logan
15. 'Her Book the Only Hope She Had': Self and Sovereignty in the Narratives of Ann Carson; Dan Williams
16. Bodies of Work: Early American Women Writers, Empire, and Pedagogy; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola