REVOLUTIONS & WATERSHEDS by W. M. Verhoeven (Editor), Beth Dolan Kautz (Editor) ( 9789042006478 )

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Title:

REVOLUTIONS & WATERSHEDS
TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUES, 1775-1815

By:

W. M. Verhoeven (Editor), Beth Dolan Kautz (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

9042006471

ISBN 13:

9789042006478

Publisher:

BRILL

Pub. date:

1 January, 1999

Series:

DQR Studies in Literature 26

Pages:

209

Synopsis:

The years between 1775 and 1815 constitute a crucial episode in the evolutionary history of Europe and America. Between the start of the American Revolution, with the first armed clashes between British regulars and American militiamen at Concord and Lexington, and the closing act of the French Revolution, with the eclipse of Napoleon's dreams of pan-European glory on the battlefield of Waterloo, America and Europe witnessed the rise and fall of radicalism, which left virtually no aspect of public and private life untouched. While the American colonies managed to wrench themselves away from their colonial parent, and while France careered down the stormy rapids of its own Revolution, Great Britain went through the turbulent process of redefining itself vis-a-vis both these emerging nations, and the world at large. But the period 1775 to 1815 offers more than the two ideological Revolutions that determined the face of modern America and Europe: feeding into and emanating from these Revolutions there were major watersheds in virtually all areas of cultural, intellectual and political life - varying from the rise of Romanticism to the birth of abolitionism, and from the beginnings of modern feminism to the creation of modern nationhood and its enduring cultural stereotypes.In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyze a broad spectrum of the watersheds and faultlines that arose in this formative era of Euro-American relations. Individually, the essays trace one or more of the transatlantic patterns of intellectual, cultural or scientific cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre- and post-Revolutionary modes and mores. Collectively, the essays argue that the many revolutions that produced the national ideologies, identities and ideas of state of present-day America and Europe did not merely play a role in national debates, but that they very much belonged to an intricate network of transnational and, more particularly, transatlantic dialogues.

Publication:

Netherlands

Imprint:

Editions Rodopi B.V.

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Non-returnable

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