Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] : Seduction and Sentiment /
Bowers, T.editor.
Chico, T.editor.
Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment; Part I: Scandal and the Fate of Dreams; 1 Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805; 2 Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants; 3 "Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction; 4 Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions; Part II: Acts of Belonging and Renunciation
5 "She Straightness on the Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"6 "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"; 7 "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theater; 8 Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, "Exceptional" Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues; Part III: Bodies of Knowledge and Doubt
9 Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment10 The Boudoir in Philosophy, or Knowing Bodies in French Fiction; 11 Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheatley's Child Elegies; 12 Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism; 13 The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Brown's Wieland; List of Contributors; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—18th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
North American Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.