23 English eng Slauter, Eric Contributor <p><span data-d-streaming-word="">The</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">article</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">examines</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">the</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">growing</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">divide</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">between</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">historians</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">and</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">literary</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">scholars</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">in</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">the</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">study</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">of</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">the</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">Atlantic</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">World.</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">Eric</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">Slauter</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">argues</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">that</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">historians</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">increasingly</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">overlook</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">literary</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">scholarship,</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">despite</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">its</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">contributions</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">to</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">understanding</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">cultural</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">identity,</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">political</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">ideas,</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">and</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">historical</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">experiences.</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">He</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">calls</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">for</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">stronger</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">interdisciplinary</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">collaboration</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">and</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">explores</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">how</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">literary</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">texts</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">can</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">serve</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">as</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">historical</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">evidence,</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">particularly</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">in</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">the</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">study</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">of</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">colonial</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">and</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">early</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">American</span> <span data-d-streaming-word="">societies.</span><br></p> University of North Carolina Press 2008 pdf ISSN 0012-8163 Atlantic history History, Literature, and the Atlantic World mixed material University of North Carolina Press