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Rethinking eighteenth-century cosmopolitanisms: Women’s letters in a transnational and transatlantic correspondence

How did people who did not travel frequently or widely imagine the world and contribute to the growing awareness of globality in the eighteenth century? In this paper, I engage with discussions on the formation of global imaginaries, as well as on the role of epistolary communication in shaping allegiances and identities, to reconsider (female) cosmopolitanism in its ordinary forms, beyond the cases of women travellers, writers, translators and collectors that have been the focus of much recent research. I use as a source the vast correspondence of the enlightened and revolutionary criollo Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), specifically around 300 letters written by women in several languages and from various locations in Europe, North and South America. Moving beyond interpretations that view those letters as mere sentimental utterances addressed to a man who fashioned himself as an enlightened traveller and universal revolutionary, I explore the ways in which these women used their connection with Miranda to expand their own mental horizons, to negotiate the gendered implications of mobility and to influence his political identity and ideas while shaping their own.

MÓNICA BOLUFER PERUGA | European University Institute

Coordinamento scientifico:
Anna Clara Basilicò (FBK-ISIG)
Irene Fattacciu (FBK-ISIG)
Alessandra Quaranta (FBK-ISIG)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG)
Sandra Toffolo (FBK-ISIG)

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Immagine di copertina: Biblioteca FBK. Credits: Andrea Franceschini

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