Tag Archives: Haitian Revolution

“To Toussaint L’Ouverture” as an Elegy

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Haram Lee

William Wordsworth’s “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” is one of the frequently discussed literary works in the historical writings on the Age of Revolution. One can easily see why: ostensibly making a hero of Toussaint Louverture, the most prominent revolutionary during the … Continue reading →

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Print Culture and the Problematics of Revolution

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Haram Lee

Preparing the bibliography on the periodicals in the age of revolution as an assignment in our seminar, I had a chance to glimpse an immense depository of the scholarship which deals with the print culture in the United States, France, … Continue reading →

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Civil War and the Haitian Revolution

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Julia Gaffield, PhD

For our first meeting, participants of the seminar read a chapter by David Armitage, “Every Great Revolution is a Civil War,” forthcoming in Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein, eds., Scripting Revolutions (Stanford, 2014). “When tracing the genealogy of the … Continue reading →

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