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
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- 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
Author Archives: Jeanna Kadlec
Liberty! or Liberty? // Revolution! or Revolution?
We concluded our Age of Revolution seminar by walking Boston’s landmark Freedom Trail with historians and guides from the Boston National Historical Park Service and the Bostonian Society. Nat Sheildly, a historian from the Bostonian Society, discussed the challenges he … Continue reading
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Tagged definitions, freedom trail, liberty, Revolution, Threads in the Age of Revolution
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The Robespierre “Type” in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Our excerpt of Julia Douthwaite’s The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France closed with a persuasive argument that representations of Robespierre post-Terror birthed a new kind of villain: the Enlightenment-bred individual whose good intentions, we might … Continue reading
Who Counts?: Women and the Title of “Traitor”
While researching primary documents for my bibliography, I stumbled upon a “Black List” of Tories printed in Pennsylvania in 1802. Though I doubted there would be any women among them, there was still that small seed of hope—and simple curiosity … Continue reading
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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Tagged charlotte smith, definitions, mary wollstonecraft, print culture, sensibility, sentimental novel
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Thinking Citizenship
“Citizenship” was a topic that came up briefly during our last seminar, and I wanted to raise it as a subject for more discussion here. What are the varying categories of “citizen” or “citizenship” that we think of when discussing … Continue reading
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Tagged citizen, citizenship, definitions, haitian constitution, helen maria williams, ideology, primary sources, sophia rosenfeld
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