Reverberations of Revolution

Elizabeth Amann

ISBN 10: 1474481590 / ISBN 13: 9781474481595

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2023

Beschreibung

A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of RevolutionsPluralist and multilingual perspectives on the Age of RevolutionsFocus on how revolutionary ideas are transformed and distorted as they cross bordersInnovative approaches drawn from translation studies, conceptual history, book history, and material cultureCutting 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781474481595

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reverberations of Revolution
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1474481590
• ISBN-13: 9781474481595
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions Pluralist and multilingual perspectives on the Age of Revolutions Focus on how revolutionary ideas are transformed and distorted as they cross borders Innovative approaches drawn from translation studies, conceptual history, book history, and material culture 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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.