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A List of Publications under the Auspices of the
European Association for American Studies .............................................. ix
Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... xiii
JUL IA NITZ , SANDRA H. PETRUL IONIS, THERESA SCHÖN
Introduction .................................................................................................. 1
I Transatlantic Networks of Cooperation
DANIELA DANIELE
Toward a Genealogy of Jo March: Charlotte Cushman
as a Crossdressed Icon of the Victorian Stage ........................................... 11
M IH A I M IN D R A
From Shtetl to the Hub: Mary Antin’s Networking Palimpsest ................. 33
JOANNE PAISANA
“Do Everything” or “Single Issue”: Lady Henry Somerset,
Frances Willard, and the 1890s Policy Dispute in the British
Women’s Temperance Association ............................................................ 53
CHARLOTTE PURKIS
Velona Pilcher’s Promotion of an Intercontinental
Theatrical Avant-Garde .............................................................................. 71
P IA W IE G M IN K
“Friends of Freedom”: Transatlantic Dimensions in the Work
of Boston’s Women Abolitionists .............................................................. 91
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II Transatlantic Conceptual Networks in Fiction
JUTTA GSOELS-LORENSEN
Untoward Homecomings: Network, Gender, and Ideology in
Luis Trenker’s The Prodigal Son (1934) ................................................. 109
BAHAR GÜRSEL
Delineating Stereotypes for Children:
The Discourse on Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in the Works of
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards ............................................................... 131
KHRISTEENA M. LUTE
Between Grace and Grit: Grace King’s American Heroine
and Her Transatlantic Foremothers .......................................................... 153
JULIA NITZ
Transatlantic Negotiations of the Female Bildungsroman:
Mary Johnston’s Hagar (1913) and the New Global Woman ................. 165
III Pan-American, Transatlantic, and Transpacific Agents
MAGDALENA GEHRING
“Old Europe will be rejuvenated by the invigorating sunrays of
Young America”: Considering the U.S. in Louise Otto-Peters’s
Woman’s Journal Frauen-Zeitung (1849–1852) ..................................... 185
CARRIE KHOU
Thinking outside the Box: The Woman Question in Meiji Japan
(1868–1912) and Kishida Toshiko’s “Daughters in Boxes” .................... 201
AN ITTA MA KSYMO WICZ
For the Sake of Abandoned Heroes: Agnes Wisla’s Work
for Polish Veterans in the U.S. and in Europe, 1917–1939 ..................... 217
CARME AND MONTSERRAT SANMARTÍ ROSET
The American Civil War Correspondence of Felisa Costa
(1859–1862): The Gradual Conversion to the Unionist Cause of
a Spanish Woman Residing in New York City ........................................ 229
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MARGARET V INING
“A Friend of International Welfare”:
Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge and Welfare Reform
in the Early Twentieth-Century Americas ............................................... 243
List of Contributors .................................................................................. 259