Travel and Travail

Patricia Akhimie is an assistant professor in the English Department at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. Bernadette Andrea is a professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature and The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture.

“Packed with fascinating case studies, this collection reveals overlooked evidence of early modern women traveling between England, Persia, India, and the Americas, alongside illuminating accounts of how dramatists characterized traveling women. Essential reading for students and scholars of travel writing.”-Gerald MacLean, professor emeritus of English literature, University of Exeter “By focusing on women, this book compellingly changes the way scholars will understand the nature and scope of travel in the early modern period. While offering impressive rereadings of fictional representations of women travelers, Travel and Travail is also rich in archival discoveries, unearthing surprising accounts of seventeenth-century women who traveled within and far beyond the British Isles. Akhimie and Andrea have orchestrated an original and important contribution to Early Modern studies.”-Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University “An important collection for the field of travel writing and early modern women’s and gender studies more broadly. The collection seeks to establish a canon of women travelers in the period, and through the reoccurrence of certain key figures across the volume, both historical and fictional, it goes a long way towards doing so.”-Julia Schleck, associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Traveling/Travailing Women: Early Modern England and the Wider World - Patricia Akhimie and Bernadette Andrea Section One: Early Modern Women Travelers: Global and Local TrajectoriesCHAPTER 1: Desdemona and Mrs. Keeling - Richmond BarbourCHAPTER 2: A “Stranger” Bride: Mariam Khan and the East India Company - Karen RobertsonCHAPTER 3: Sailing to India: Women, Travel, and Crisis in the Seventeenth Century - Amrita SenCHAPTER 4: Teresa Sampsonia Sherley: Amazon, Traveler, and Consort - Carmen NocentelliCHAPTER 5: The Global Travels of Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s Carmelite Relic - Bernadette AndreaCHAPTER 6: Gender and Travel Discourse: Richard Lassels’s “The Voyage of the Lady Catherine Whetnall from Brussells into Italy” (1650) - Patricia AkhimieCHAPTER 7: Advance and Retreat: Reading English Colonial Choreographies of Pocahontas - Elisa OhCHAPTER 8: Lady Anne Clifford’s “Way” and Aristocratic Women’s Travel - Laura Williamson AmbroseSection Two: Early Modern Women and “the Globe”: Gendered Travel on the English StageCHAPTER 9: Mapping Women: Place Names and a Woman’s Place - Laura AydelotteCHAPTER 10: Eroticizing Women's Travel: Desdemona and the Desire for Adventure in Othello - Stephanie ChamberlainCHAPTER 11: Desdemona’s “Divided Duty”: Gender and Courtesy in Othello - Michael SlaterCHAPTER 12: “She loved me for the dangers I had passed”: From Adventure to Danger in the Travels of Desdemona and Miranda - Eder JaramilloCHAPTER 13: “In th’habiliments of the goddess Isis”: Marian Mobility, Black Madonnas, and the Cleopatra Complex - Ruben EspinosaCHAPTER 14: Precarious Travail, Gender, and Narration in Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre and Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World - Dyani Johns TaffCHAPTER 15: Traveling Companions: Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the Book of Ruth - Suzanne TartamellaCHAPTER 16: English Women, Romance, and Global Travel in Thomas Heywood’s The Fair Maid of the West, Part One - Gaywyn MooreAFTERWORD: Looking for the Women in Early Modern Travel Writing - Mary FullerNotes on Contributor