Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850(Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures)

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.

Table of Contents:
Series Editors’ Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction Elizabeth Amann and Michael Boyden Pugachev Goes Global: The Revolutionary Potential of Translation Malte Griesse ‘The Tranquil March of the Revolution’: German and German-American Reverberations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings Alessa Johns Translation as Conceptual Reverberation: ‘Revolution’ in Wales 1688–1937 Marion Löffler Revolution in Colonial Translation: From Saint-Domingue to Haiti Jeremy D. Popkin Enlightenment Tropes in French Popular Theater on the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s Anja Bandau Reverberations of the Haitian Revolution: Media, Narratives and Political Debates, 1791–1863 Florian Kappeler Ribbons of Revolution: Tricolour Cockades Across the Atlantic Ashli White The Noble Turk: Estanislao De Cosca Vayo’s Grecia, Ó La Doncella De Missolonghi (1830) and the Spanish Response to the Greek War of Independence Elizabeth Amann Coda: Frederick Douglass and the Wild Songs of Revolution Michael Boyden Notes Index

About the Author :
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.

Review :
This important book offers fresh critical insights in the long lasting political, ideological 　and cultural resonance of European and transatlantic revolutions between 1770 and 1850. Challenging teleological concepts of revolution, a series of sophisticated case studies explores how ideas, texts, and objects are transformed and appropriated in new contexts.