Atlantic worlds in the long eighteenth century : seduction and sentiment / edited by Toni Bowers and Tita Chico.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowers, Toni.

Chico, Tita, 1970-

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Seduction in literature.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Literature, Modern--17th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

vi, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Scandal and the Fate of Dreams

1 Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805 / Eve Tavor Bannet Bannet, Eve Tavor 17

2 Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants / Juliet Shields Shields, Juliet 33

3 "Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction / Biyan Waterman Waterman, Biyan 49

4 Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions / Michael Zuckerman Zuckerman, Michael 55

Part II Acts of Belonging and Renunciation

5 "She Straightness on the "Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvells "Upon Appleton House" / Melissa E. Sanchez Sanchez, Melissa E. 31

6 "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland" / Laura M. Stevens Stevens, Laura M. 97

7 "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theater / Heather S. Nathans Nathans, Heather S. 115

8 Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, "Exceptional" Native "Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues / Carolyn Eastman Eastman, Carolyn 135

Part III Bodies of Knowledge and Doubt

9 Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment / Jayne Elizabeth Lewis Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth 151

10 The Boudoir in Philosophy, or Knowing Bodies in French Fiction / Thomas DiPiero DiPiero, Thomas 171

11 Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheadey s Child Elegies / Jennifer Thorn Thorn, Jennifer 189

12 Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism / Gideon Mailer Mailer, Gideon, Karen Collis Collis, Karen 205

13 The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Browns Wieland / George E. Haggerty Haggerty, George E. 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0230108679

9780230108677

OCLC:

704384737

Publisher Number:

99948067478