What relations pertained between seduction plots, sentimental narratives, and the economic, social, credal, and political imperatives of the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? What could "seduction" and "sentiment" mean in relation to one another? When, how, and why were the two positioned in relation to each other, as versions of one another, or as antonyms?

This collection of essays considers how new exigencies that emerged in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Atlantic world reconfigured old and shaped possible new relations between seduction and sentiment.

Essays to be completed by December 1, 2009.

Email 500-word abstracts to Toni Bowers (tbowers@english.upenn.edu) and Tita Chico (tchico@umd.edu)

by May 1, 2009.