Atlantic worlds in the long eighteenth century

By Tita Chico, Toni Bowers

Subjects: Seduction in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Modern Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 17th century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, History and criticism

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"--