Francis D Cogliano

The Atlantic Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Manning, Susan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This collection takes up the question, bringing together leading international scholars who cross disciplinary boundaries to offer new insights into the historical, literary, and material conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing. The essays address questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, and religious contexts on both sides of the Atlantic during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780754660408
• ISBN-10: 0754660400
• Artikelnr.: 27937359

Autorenporträt

Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Francis D. Cogliano is Professor in American History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword
Introduction: the Enlightenment and the Atlantic, Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano
Enlightenment historiography and cultural civil wars, Paul Giles
Where was the Atlantic enlightenment?- questions of geography, Charles W.J. Withers
John Witherspoon and the transatlantic enlightenment, Daniel W. Howe
David Hume and the seagods of the Atlantic, Emma Rothschild
The Atlantic enlightenment and German responses to the American Revolution, c1775 to c1800, Thomas Ahnert
Transatlantic Cervantics: Don Quixote and the fictions of American enlightenment, Sarah F. Wood
Placing The Power of Sympathy: transatlantic sentiments and the 'first American novel', James Chandler
Adam Smith and the crisis of the American Union, Peter S. Onuf
The enlightenment at sea in the Atlantic world, Paul A. Gilje
Works cited
Index.