Revolutionary Histories Cultural Crossings 1775-1875 [Paperback]

In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyse some of the most significant watersheds and faultlines that occurred in the period 1775-1815, a crucial era in the history of Euro-Americans relations. Tracing complex patterns of intellectual and cultural cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre-and post-Revolutionary cultures, the essays aim to increase out awareness of the degree to which the emergence of cultural nationalism in this period was essentially a transatlantic process - a process that was itself part of a larger circumatlantic cultural continuum.Notes on the Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction; W.M.Verhoeven Travelling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776-1812; L.Kramer Volney, Frankenstein , and the Lessons of History; W.Krul Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility; C.Mulford A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic; L.Tennenhouse International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749-1812; R.Lawson-Peebles Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel; N.Armstrong Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier; M.Gaull 'That Miserable Continent': Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of 'America' in Cornelis de Pauw; K.V.Berkel Secret Societies and Illuminati Infidels: The Counter-Conspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatism in America and Europe; M.Lienesch 'I will use no Daggers'! I will unfold a Tale-!: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin; W.M.Verhoeven Edmund Burke, Historism, and History; F.R.Ankersmit Index

'...timely and will greatly benefit those scholars interested in expanding transatlantically their fields of study and teaching.' - Bryan Waterman, The Wordsworth Circle

F.R. ANKERSMIT Professor of History, University of GrolÖ