“With All the Fortitude of a Heroine”: Seduction, Benevolence and Reform in Writing the Anglo-Maritime World

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Notes

¹ In his Young Men and the Sea and her Captain Ahab had a Wife, historians Daniel Vickers and Lisa Norling provide strong evidence for the changing nature of American maritime society.

² For more on the history of evangelical ideology and its relationship to growing reform movement in antebellum America see Robert Abzug’s Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994).

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This work was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Folger Shakespeare Library and the Social Science Research Council;