Atlantic worlds in the long eighteenth century
Subtitle: seduction and sentiment
By: edited by Tita Chico and Toni Bowers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230108677
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Sentimentalism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American; Seduction in literature; History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: "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 understand and negotiate previously unimagined manifestations of difference between and among people, institutions, and ideas"--