Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century Seduction and Sentiment

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.

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.