Sensational Internationalism

The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century

J. Michelle Coghlan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-1120-2 (ISBN)

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Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond
In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century. It offers fascinating, remarkably accessible readings of a range of literary works, from periodical poetry and boys’ adventure fiction to radical pulp and the writings of Henry James, as well as a rich analysis of visual, print, and performance culture, from post-bellum illustrated weeklies and panoramas to agit-prop pamphlets and Coney Island pyrotechnic shows. This book will speak to readers looking to understand the affective, cultural, and aesthetic afterlives of revolt and revolution pre-and-post Occupy Wall Street, as well as those interested in space, gender, performance, and transatlantic print culture.
Key Features
Multi-disciplinary study of the cultural legacy of the Paris Commune in both mainstream and leftist U.S. memoryContributes to recent work on the global dimensions of pre-Popular front radical culture in the USAddresses a critical ongoing blind spot in American Studies by extending the borders of transatlantic affiliation beyond the confines of Anglo-American attachmentsOffers innovative readings of well-known and altogether neglected cultural texts

J. Michelle Coghlan teaches American literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work on cultural memory, sensation, queer economies of desire, and American literature of the long nineteenth century has appeared in journals and edited books, including Arizona Quarterly, The Henry James Review, Transforming Henry James and Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers. She recently guest edited the “Tasting Modernism” special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.

Introduction: Revolutionary Preoccupations: Or, Transatlantic Feeling in a Radical Sense
1. Framing the Pétroleuse: Postbellum Poetry & the Visual Culture of Gender Panic
2. Becoming Americans in Paris: The Commune as Frontier in Turn-of-the-Century Adventure Fiction
3. Radical Calendars: The Commune Rising in Postbellum Internationalism
4. Tasting Space: Sights of the Commune in Henry James’s Paris
5. Re-staging Horror: Insurgent Memories of the Commune in the 1930s
Epilogue: Barricades Revisited: the Commune on Campus from FSM to SDS

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Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
Zusatzinfo	18 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	496 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-4744-1120-7 / 1474411207
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-1120-2 / 9781474411202
Zustand	Neuware