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Beyond 1776

Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2018
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4175-2 (ISBN)
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Considers the American Revolution within a global framework. The book centres first on the migration of ideas across the Atlantic, particularly among intellectuals and through print. The essays in the second section articulate how revolutions fostered surprising exchanges in, for example the West Indies and in the first penal colonies of Australia.
In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework. The foundation of the United States was deeply enmeshed with shifting alliances and multiple actors, with politics saturated by imaginative literature, and with ostensible bilateral negotiations that were, in fact, shaped by speculation about realignments in geopolitical power. To reanimate these intricate and often indirect connections, this volume uncovers the influences of people across disparate sites both during and after independence.

The book centers first on the migration of ideas across the Atlantic, particularly among intellectuals and through print. In this section, scholars focus on how various European countries or cliques appropriate the Revolution to reanimate an array of national, local, or cosmopolitan affiliations. The essays in the second section articulate how revolutions fostered surprising exchanges in, for example the West Indies and in the first penal colonies of Australia, along the Celtic fringe and Pacific Rim, and in the vast territories through which goods circulated. Taken as a whole, this collection answers the persistent calls from scholars to move beyond the boundaries defined by the nation-state or periodization to rethink narratives of U.S. foundations. The contributors examine a range of texts, from novels and drama to diplomatic correspondence, letters of common sailors, political treatises, newspapers, accounting ledgers, naval records, and burial rituals (many from non-Anglophone sources).

Beyond 1776 will appeal to scholars seeking to understand contact and exchange in the late eighteenth century. It indexes how different intellectuals in the period deployed the Revolution as a point of connection; follows the dispersal of print books, guns, slaves, and memorabilia; and evaluates literary responses to the new republic. The book puts in conversation scholars of literature, theater, history, modern languages, American studies, political science, transatlanticism, cultural studies, women’s studies, postcolonialism, and geography.

Contributors: Jeng-Guo Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Matthew Dziennik, United States Naval Academy; Miranda Green-Barteet, University of Western Ontario; Carine Lounissi, Université de Rouen-Normandie; Therese-Marie Meyer, Martin-Luther-University of Halle- Wittenberg; Maria O’Malley, University of Nebraska, Kearney; Denys Van Renen, University of Nebraska, Kearney; Ed Simon, Bentley University; Wyger Velema, University of Amsterdam; Leonard von Morzé, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Maria O’Malley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals, including New England Quarterly and Journal of Narrative Theory. Denys Van Renen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Kearney and the author of The Other Exchange: Women, Servants, and the Urban Underclass in Early Modern English Literature and Nature and the New Science in England, 1665-1726.

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Edward N. Simon, Leonard Von Morze, Wyger R.E. Velema
Verlagsort Charlottesville
Sprache englisch
Maße 231 x 236 mm
Gewicht 523 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8139-4175-X / 081394175X
ISBN-13 978-0-8139-4175-2 / 9780813941752
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