Revolutionary Histories

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • W. M. Verhoeven

   Pages 1-9

3. Traveling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776–1812

   • Lloyd Kramer

   Pages 10-25

4. Volney, Frankenstein, and the Lessons of History

   • Wessel Krul

   Pages 26-47

5. Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility

   • Carla Mulford

   Pages 48-61

6. A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic

   • Leonard Tennenhouse

   Pages 62-84

7. International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749–1812

   • Robert Lawson-Peebles

   Pages 85-103

8. Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel

   • Nancy Armstrong

   Pages 104-121

9. Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier

   • Marilyn Gaull

   Pages 122-134

10. “That Miserable Continent”: Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of “America” in Cornelis de Pauw

    • Klaas van Berkel

    Pages 135-151

11. The Illusion of the Illuminati: the Counterconspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatism

    • Michael Lienesch

    Pages 152-165

12. “I will use no daggers! I will unfold a tale — !”: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin

    • W. M. Verhoeven

    Pages 166-187

13. Edmund Burke, Historism, and History

    • Frank Ankersmit

    Pages 188-211

14. Back Matter

    Pages 212-258

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

• Europe
• history
• Native Americans
• revolution

'...timely and will greatly benefit those scholars interested in expanding transatlantically their fields of study and teaching.' - Bryan Waterman, The Wordsworth Circle

• University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  W. M. Verhoeven

F.R. ANKERSMIT Professor of History, University of Groningen NANCY ARMSTRONG Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Comparative Literature, English, Modern Culture and Media, and Women's Studies, Brown University KLAAS VAN BERKEL Professor of Modern History, University of Groningen and Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences MARILYN GAULL Professor of English, New York University and Temple University LLOYD KRAMER Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill WESSEL KRUL Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Groningen ROBERT LAWSON-PEEBLES Senior Lecturer, School of English and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Academic Partnership at Exeter University MICHAEL LIENESCH Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill CARLA MULFORD Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University LEONARD TENNENHOUSE Professor of Comparative Literature, English and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University.

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