Teaching Charlotte Lennoxs Harriot Stuart: Romance, the Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Transatlantic Fictions

Harriot Stuart is well worth teaching because it offers rich possibilities both for discussing literary forms such as heroic romance, epistolary form, and womens narrative voices, and for investigating topics such the transatlantic experience, colonialism, and representations of Native Americans. Whether in a course focused specifically on Charlotte Lennoxs works or in a more broadly focused course in eighteenth-century fiction, Harriot Stuart can help students learn about the possibilities for womens empowerment and about transatlantic and racial ideas during the period.