The End(s) of Revolution
Symposium
Howard Brown, Laurent Dubois, Jill Lepore,
April 25, 2014
2:00-5:00pm Mandel G03News
Announcing Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
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- American Revolution
- Art of Americas
- captain america
- charlotte smith
- citizen
- citizenship
- Civil War
- counter-revolution
- Counterrevolution
- Definition
- definitions
- french revolution
- gender
- haitian constitution
- Haitian Revolution
- helen maria williams
- Historiography
- ideology
- julia douthwaite
- literature
- madame roland
- marie-olympe de gouges
- mary wollstonecraft
- material culture
- MFA
- Narrative
- Politics
- primary sources
- print culture
- representation
- Revolution
- robespierre
- sensibility
- sentimental novel
- sophia rosenfeld
- Sources
- Subjectivity
- terror
- the public sphere
- Threads in the Age of Revolution
- Toussaint Louverture
- traitors
- treason
- William Wordsworth
- Women
Tag Archives: print culture
Sensibility and Revolution: A Case Study
In seminar this week, we started to talk about the discourse of sensibility. Sensibility was particularly prominent in Mary Ashburn Miller’s article, in which she linked sensibility to authenticity. Miller writes, “The more passionate an individual during the phase of … Continue reading
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Spinning Revolution
In our last seminar meeting of the semester, we focused on material culture, discussing the ways in which the study of “things” can deepen and nuance our understanding of revolution. I found this seminar theme particularly useful in complicating the … Continue reading
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Print Culture and the Problematics of Revolution
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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Tagged Haitian Revolution, Historiography, print culture, the public sphere
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Newspapers and Revolution
In his excellent essay “Reading the Republic: Newspapers in Early America,” historian Jeffrey L. Pasley – an upcoming guest in our seminar – engages in a curious exercise. In order to contextualize the political and social world of the Early … Continue reading
William Henry Drayton and the Meaning of Revolution
One of my broader intellectual goals in this seminar is to track down the origins of the term “American Revolution.” In other words, when did eighteenth-century Americans begin using the phrase to describe what they were about, and what meaning … Continue reading
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