Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women, as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, which presents twenty countries, is divided into four parts. First, we examine how women belonged to nations: they represented territories and political or religious communities in their own style. Second, we deal with the ways in which women wrote the nation: the network of relationships in which they were involved that were not necessarily national or territorial. The legitimation that women writers succeeded in finding is emphasised in the third section, while in the fourth we analyse how and why women were open to the outside world, beyond the country's borders. Women Telling Nations underlines the quantitative importance of the circulation of these women's writings and demonstrates the extent as well as the impact of the international cross-fertilisation of nations, especially by and for women: focusing on routes rather than roots.
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Latine loquor: women acquiring auctorictas (Portugal 1500-1800)
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Beyond political boundaries: religion as nation in Early Modern Spain
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Expatriates: women communities, mobility and cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe: English and Spanish nuns in Flanders
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Strange language and practices of disorder: the prophetic crisis in France following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685
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Early Modern women intellectuals in 19th century Serbia: Milica Stojadinovic, Draga Dejanovic and Milica Tomic
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A queen of many kingdoms: The autobiography of Rayna Knyaginya
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The vision of an equal nation: Russian-Finnish author and feminist Marie Linder (1840-1870)
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Decadent women telling nations differently: The Finnish writer L. Onerva and her motherless dilettante upstarts
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The community of letters and the nation state: bio-biblioographic compilations as a transnational genre around 1700
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Anthologies of female Italian authors and the emergence of a national identity in 19th century Italy
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Histories of women, histories of nation: biographical writing as women's tradition in Finland, 1880-1920s
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Early women's press (three female magazines): a challenge for the 19th century East and Greece
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Overpassing state and cultural borders: a Polish female doctor in 18th century Constantinople
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Between national myth and trans-national ideal: the representation of nations in the French-language writings of Russian women (1770-1819)
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Regina Maria Roche and Ireland: a problematic relationship
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Amor vincit (R)Om(A)Nia: reshaping identities in Romanian mid-19th Century culture
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