| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) |
| Contents |
Seduction and Sentiment: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century; T. Bowers & T. Chico -- PART I: SCANDAL AND THE FATE OF DREAMSAdulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805; E.T. Bannet -- Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants; J. Shields -- Heaven defend us from such fathers : Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction; B. Waterman -- Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions; M. Zuckerman -- PART II: ACTS OF BELONGING AND RENUNCIATION. "She Straightness on the Woods Bestows ': Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"; M.E. Sanchez -- "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"; L.M. Stevens -- "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theatre; H.S. Nathans -- Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional' Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues; C. Eastman -- PART III: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND DOUBT. Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment; J.E. Lewis -- The Boudoir in Philosophy or, Knowing Bodies in French Fiction; T. DiPiero -- Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheatley's Child Elegies; J. Thorn -- Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, -- Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism; G.A. Mailer & K.J. Collis -- The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Brown's Wieland; G.E. Haggerty |
| 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 |
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"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Seduction in literature.
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Sentimentalism in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Modern
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Seduction in literature
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Literatur
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Verführung
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Empfindung
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Verführung.
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Empfindung.
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Motiv (Literatur)
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Atlantischer Ozean
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Atlantischer Ozean.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowers, Toni
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Chico, Tita, 1970-
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| ISBN |
9781137014610 |
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113701461X |
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0230108679 |
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9780230108677 |
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