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 an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tita Chico is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland.

Seduction and Sentiment: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Bowers& T.Chico PART I: SCANDAL AND THE FATE OF DREAMS Adulterous 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