Reverberations of Revolution
Transnational Perspectives, 1770-1850
Edited by Elizabeth Amann, Michael Boyden
- Pluralist and multilingual perspectives on the Age of Revolutions
- Focus on how revolutionary ideas are transformed and distorted as they cross borders
- Innovative approaches drawn from translation studies, conceptual history, book history, and material culture
Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the dissemination and transformation of revolutionary ideas in the period between the mid-eighteenth century and the revolutions of 1848. In addition to revolutionary movements in Europe and the United States, it deals with the international impact of the Haitian Revolution. The chapters in the book adopt transnational approaches to revolution to show how political uprisings often reverberated far beyond the borders of the states directly affected – in the form of narratives, metaphors, translations, letters, pamphlets and dialogues, as well as physical objects.
Series Editors’ Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Elizabeth Amann and Michael Boyden
Pugachev Goes Global: The Revolutionary Potential of Translation
Malte Griesse
‘The Tranquil March of the Revolution’: German and German-American Reverberations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Writings
Alessa Johns
Translation as Conceptual Reverberation: ‘Revolution’ in Wales 1688–1937
Marion Löffler
Revolution in Colonial Translation: From Saint-Domingue to Haiti
Jeremy D. Popkin
Enlightenment Tropes in French Popular Theater on the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s
Anja Bandau
Reverberations of the Haitian Revolution: Media, Narratives and Political Debates, 1791–1863
Florian Kappeler
Ribbons of Revolution: Tricolour Cockades Across the Atlantic
Ashli White
The Noble Turk: Estanislao De Cosca Vayo’s Grecia, Ó La Doncella De Missolonghi (1830) and the Spanish Response to the Greek War of Independence
Elizabeth Amann
Coda: Frederick Douglass and the Wild Songs of Revolution
Michael Boyden
Notes
Index
This important book offers fresh critical insights in the long lasting political, ideological and cultural resonance of European and transatlantic revolutions between 1770 and 1850. Challenging teleological concepts of revolution, a series of sophisticated case studies explores how ideas, texts, and objects are transformed and appropriated in new contexts.
