Revolutionary Histories : Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism 1775-1815

by Verhoeven, W.M.

• ISBN13: 9780333794159
• ISBN10: 033379415X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-03-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze significant watersheds and faultlines from 1775-1815--a crucial era in the history of Euro-Americans relations. Tracing patterns of intellectual and cultural cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre- and post-Revolutionary cultures, the essays increase awareness of the degree to which the emergence of cultural nationalism in this period was essentially a transatlantic processa process that was itself part of a larger circumatlantic cultural continuum.

Author Biography

W.M. Verhoeven is Professor of American Literature and Culture and Director of American Studies, University of Fromigen.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(9)
W.M. Verhoeven
Traveling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776-1812	10	(16)
Lloyd Kramer
Volney, Frankenstein, and the Lessons of History	26	(22)
Wessel Krul
Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility	48	(14)
Carla Mulford
A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic	62	(23)
Leonard Tennenhouse
International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749-1812	85	(19)
Robert Lawson-Peebles
Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel	104	(18)
Nancy Armstrong
Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier	122	(13)
Marilyn Gaull
``That Miserable Continent'': Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of ``America'' in Cornelis de Pauw	135	(17)
Klaas van Berkel
The Illusion of the Illuminati: The Counterconspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatism	152	(14)
Michael Lienesch
``I will use no daggers! I will unfold a tale - !'': Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin	166	(22)
W.M. Verhoeven
Edmund Burke, Historism, and History	188	(24)
Frank Ankersmit
Notes	212	(43)
Index	255