Download or read book Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century written by T. Bowers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.