Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810

Eve Tavor Bannet explores some of the remarkable stories about the Atlantic world that shaped Britons'' and Americans'' perceptions of that world. These stories about women, servants, the poor and the dispossessed were frequently rewritten or reframed by editors and printers in America and Britain for changing audiences, times and circumstances. Bannet shows how they were read by examining what co...