This handbook explores the rich and as yet understudied field of women’s writing during the nation-building years that characterized the global politics of the long nineteenth century. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, the waning of the Spanish Empire, subsequent Latin American uprisings, and the Italian Risorgimento, nineteenth-century women writers cracked wide open the myths of gender, race, and class that had sustained the ancien régime. This volume shows that the transnational networks of women writing about politics, sexuality, economics, and the forging of the modern nation were much broader and more inclusive at a global level than has previously been understood. The handbook uniquely foregrounds French, Italian, Latin American, and Spanish women writers, focusing on the transnational nature of their relationships and cultural production within a growing body of research that casts an ever-wider net in the effort to document women’s voices.

Table of Contents:
1. Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century Clorinda Donato and Claire Emilie Martin.- 2. Women across Boundaries: Transnational Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Rewriting Women’s History from a Transnational Perspective.- 3. Transatlantic Networks against Cultural Periphery: The Baroness of Wilson’s Canon and the Spanish and Latin American Women of Letters in the Nineteenth Century.- 4. Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies: From Madame de Staël’s Corinne, oul’Italie (1807) to Kim Ragusa’s The Skin between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (2006).- 5. The Confessions of the Countess Merlin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Writing as the Essential Adventure of Their Lives.- 6. “Tutto il sesso femminino per mia bocca v’intima Guerra” (Through My Mouth, the Entire Female Sex Declares War on You), Signed: A European Woman.- 7. Angelica Palli and Alessio: Love and Patriotism in the Early Italian Historical Novel.- 8. The Transatlantic Experience in the Construction of Flora Tristan’s Authorial Posture: From Pariah to Female Messiah.- 9. El baúl de Miss Florence: (Re)imagining the Past; Women’s Travel Literature and the Sweet Tyranny of the Sugar Haciendas in Puerto Rico.- 10. Romantic Cartographies: La Condesa de Merlin’s Colonial Havana and the View from the Harbor.- 11. Matilde Serao, Flânerie and Women in Urban Spaces.- 12. The Fourth Estate in Petticoats.- 13. The Twenty-Year Journey: Flavia Steno’s La Chiosa and the French Daily Newspaper La Fronde.- 14. Women Readers in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: A Study of the Periodicals Las Hijas del Anáhuac, El Álbum de la Mujer, and Violetas del Anáhuac.- 15. Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Tradiciones cuzqueñas: A Writer’s Perspective.- 16. Luck of the Draw: Gambling, Marriage, and the Labor Economy in Clorinda Matto de Turner’s Herencia.- 17. Clorinda’s Cosmopolis: Crisis, Reinvention, and the Birth of Búcaro Americano.- 18. Adapting Economic Strategies to a Changing World in María del Pilar Sinués’s La dama elegante (1880).- 19. Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s  La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868).- 20. Epistolary and Commodity Exchanges in Nineteenth-Century Argentina, or Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville’s Agency.- 21. Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’amour: Dehumanization and Madness of the Buried Alive.- 22. Towards New Models of Femininity in the Works of Virginia Elena Ortea.- 23. In Defense of Women’s Progress and Freethinking: Amalia Domingo Soler, Eugenia Estopa and Dolores Navas.- 24. Writing about the Unspeakable: Gendered Violence in the Nineteenth Century.- 25. Women Worthies? Ascriptions of Masculinity to Exceptional Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century Italy.- 26. “Doña María Dolores López, Vecina of Tehuacán” or the Case of a Too-Soon Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman Writer.- 27. Annie Vivanti’s Multicultural Identity and the Shaping of the Artist’s Body.- 28. The “Alpine Sybil”: Her Verses and Prose Between Arcadia and Romanticism (the Italian Way).- 29. Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Ecocriticism in George Sand’s François le champi.- 30. What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916).- 31. Transnational Emancipationism: Fanny Salazar Zampini's Commitment to Women's Liberation.- 32. Adaptation to or of the Environment? Examining the Works of French Women Writers of the First Republic and First Empire through an Ecocritical Lens.- 33. The Archive as Legitimizing Artifact in Ccora Campillana: Romance histórico del tiempo de la conquista (1873) by Carolina Freyre de Jaimes.- 34. “One of the First, If Not the Very First Woman of Her Age”: Germaine de Staël and Her Literary Posterity.- 35. The Making of Il Giorno: Matilde Serao’s Letters to Luigi Luzzatti.- 36. Celebrity by Way of Autobiography: The Case of Angela Veronese.- 37. Alliance and Sorellanza in Matilde Serao’s Romanzo della fanciulla.- 38. Superstition and Orientalism in Il ventre di Napoli by Matilde Serao.- 39. Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and Her Transatlantic Journey (1873¬–1890): Victorina o el heroísmo del corazón.- 40. Liturgization and the Satire of Politics in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La tribuna (1883).- 41. Between Conformity and Transgression: Approaches to Writing in the Albums of Emilia Pardo Bazán.- 42. Victoria Ocampo’s Transnational Networks: A Sociocultural and Data-Driven Approach.