Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850 - Paperback

by Elizabeth Amann (Editor), Michael Boyden (Editor)

A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions

Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to revolutionary movements in Europe and the United States, it deals with the international impact of the Haitian Revolution. The chapters in the book adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected - in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialogues, as well as physical objects.

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A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary movements in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. The chapters in the book adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected - in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialogues, as well as physical objects. Elizabeth Amann is Professor of Literary Studies at Ghent University Michael Boyden is a chair professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen

Author Biography

Elizabeth Amann is Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the author of Importing Madame Bovary: The Politics of Adultery (Palgrave, 2006).

Michael Boyden is chair professor of English at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of Introduction to Special Issue The New Natural History. Early American literature, University of North Carolina Press (2019), Salt and Slavery in Crevecoeur, Early American literature, University of North Carolina Press, The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, De Gruyter.