Titlebook: Revolutionary Histories; Cultural Crossings 1 W. M. Verhoeven (Professor of American Culture and Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division o

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Introduction,his 1798 . a particular sensitivity to the essential . of the historical markers of the 1790s. Hiding his cool, incisive rationality behind the persuasive cadences of his symphonic prose, Malthus sets the scene for a simple yet powerful argument that was thoroughly to upset the uneasy ideological st

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,Traveling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776–1812, culture that united the advocates of both revolutions. Of course nobody knew in the early 1780s that the American Revolution would be followed before the end of that decade by a revolution in Europe, but the revolutionary events in America attracted the attention of European intellectuals and took

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Volney, ,, and the Lessons of History, nature, ignominiously took flight when his creation showed its first signs of life. He only dared to return home when he was sure that the Monster had left. A long time passed before the two, the creator and his creature, met again. Meanwhile the Monster acquired a remarkable knowledge of human civ

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Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility,ion, in Britain and France. The potential for establishing new forms of governance because of the clear possibility of independent economic viability of colonial holdings of both countries fostered clear anxiety among the genteel and aristocratic, because of an overwhelming desire to preserve the st

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A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic, Blair and Robert Watson. Smith’s and Blair’s profound effect on English letters is commonplace. These lectures were also well attended by a number of intellectuals who eventually emigrated to America. When Blair’s lectures were published in 1783, they were avidly consumed on both sides of the Atlan

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Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel, identifies her as the first novelist to matter in this respect and proceeds to track the “great tradition” from Austen through to its culmination in Henry James.. Assuming, thanks to Leavis, that with Austen’s career the rise of the novel was complete, Ian Watt never even speculates about the fate

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Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier, Germany, and Great Britain, like accidental tourists the nursery tales arrived in the eighteenth century on the American shore. What they were called determined how they were preserved, studied, and valued: myths, fables, “popular antiquities,” fairytales, and, after 1847, folktales. Somewhere alon

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,“That Miserable Continent”: Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of “America” in Cornelis de Pauw,at Paris, hosted a dinner at which both American and French guests were present. Among the French guests was also the well-known . Abbé Raynal, who in the course of the evening got on his favorite theory concerning the general degeneration of animals and even humans on the American continent. Irrita

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The Illusion of the Illuminati: the Counterconspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatisaw plots and counterplots: agents devising devious plans in shadowy places; brotherhoods that practiced bizarre and blasphemous rituals; spies who stashed their secrets in ingenious compartments in the bottoms of barrels. Moreover, in contrast to earlier conspiracies, those at the close of the centu

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,“I will use no daggers! I will unfold a tale — !”: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity inounds unless we approach them with specific preconceptions about the kinds of truths that each is supposed to deal in. But the aim of the writer of a novel must be the same as that of the writer of a history. Both wish to provide a verbal image of ‘reality.’”. Hayden White’s provocative statement, m