Toni Bowers (University of Pennsylvania) and
Tita Chico (University of Maryland), editors
Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century:
Palgrave, 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10867-7
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29147-2
The Atlantic Ocean in the decades between the late seventeenth century and the early nineteenth was not one but many places, sites of unprecedented movement, suffering, expectation, risk, dread, and desire.
In thirteen new essays by leading scholars, Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment vividly demonstrates how imaginative writing served urgent social, credal, and ideological imperatives across locations and among persons radically and unalterably redefined by their relations to the Atlantic. Tales of sexual coercion (“seduction”) and intense feeling (“sentiment”) were intimately co-mingled.
In our state-of-the-field Introduction, Bowers and I place the essays in the context of recent Atlantic Studies scholarship and challenge the perpetuation of disciplinary boundaries that limit scholars’ imaginative engagements with the past.