With few exceptions, sex is noticeably absent from popular histories chronicling colonial and Revolutionary America. Moreover, it is rarely associated specifica

The essays in this collection explore representations of and responses to sexual violence over the course of the long eighteenth century. Contributors examine t

Biographers, journalists, and satirists have long used the subject of sex to define the masculine character and political authority of America's Founding Father

During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-develope

In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, “What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejud