The Atlantic enlightenment

Authors:Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano

Summary:Was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This collection offers insights into the conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing; addressing questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, historical, and religious contexts.

Print Book, English, 2016

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Publisher: Routledge, London, 2016

Series:

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

Genre:Aufsatzsammlung

Physical Description:xii, 209 Seiten Illustrationen

ISBN:

9780754660408, 0754660400

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1006568566

Subjects:

1700-1899

Atlantic Ocean Region

Atlantic Ocean Region Intellectual life 18th century

Atlantic Ocean Region Intellectual life 19th century

Atlantique, Région de l' Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle

Atlantique, Région de l' Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle

Enlightenment Atlantic Ocean Region

Europe Intellectual life 18th century

Intellectual life

Siècle des Lumières Atlantique, Région de l'

Contents:

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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