Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century Seduction and Sentiment

by Chico, Tita; Bowers, Toni

• ISBN13: 9780230108677
• ISBN10: 0230108679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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 negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.

Author Biography

Toni Bowers is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the co-founder of the Atlantic Studies Seminar. She is the author of Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance; The Politics of Motherhood: British Literature and Culture, 1680-1760; and more than thirty articles and reviews in scholarly journals. Tita Chico is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture and the editor of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment	p. 1
Scandal and the Fate of Dreams
Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805	p. 17
Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants	p. 33
"Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction	p. 49
Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions	p. 55
Acts of Belonging and Renunciation
"She Straightness on the "Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvells "Upon Appleton House"	p. 31
"Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"	p. 97
"O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theater	p. 115
Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, "Exceptional" Native "Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues	p. 135
Bodies of Knowledge and Doubt
Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment	p. 151
The Boudoir in Philosophy, or Knowing Bodies in French Fiction	p. 171
Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheadey s Child Elegies	p. 189
Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism	p. 205
The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Browns Wieland	p. 221
List of Contributors	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 265
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