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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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.
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.
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