Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century

J. Michelle Coghlan

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Sensational Internationalism

The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century

J. Michelle Coghlan

In the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474411219

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About this book

Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond

WINNER of the 2017 Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize

In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century. It offers fascinating, remarkably accessible readings of a range of literary works, from periodical poetry and boys’ adventure fiction to radical pulp and the writings of Henry James, as well as a rich analysis of visual, print, and performance culture, from post-bellum illustrated weeklies and panoramas to agit-prop pamphlets and Coney Island pyrotechnic shows. Throughout, it uncovers how a foreign revolution came back to life as a domestic commodity, and why for decades another nation’s memory came to feel so much our own. This book will speak to readers looking to understand the affective, cultural, and aesthetic afterlives of revolt and revolution pre-and-post Occupy Wall Street, as well as those interested in space, gender, performance, and transatlantic print culture.

Key Features

Multi-disciplinary study of the cultural legacy of the Paris Commune in both mainstream and leftist U.S. memory
Contributes to recent work on the global dimensions of pre-Popular front radical culture in the US
Addresses a critical ongoing blind spot in American Studies by extending the borders of transatlantic affiliation beyond the confines of Anglo-American attachments
Offers innovative readings of well-known and altogether neglected cultural texts

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction: Revolutionary Preoccupations: Or, Transatlantic Feeling in a Radical Sense Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Framing the Pétroleuse: Postbellum Poetry and the Visual Culture of Gender Panic Open Access Download PDF	23
2. Becoming Americans in Paris: The Commune as Frontier in Turn-of-the-Century Adventure Fiction Open Access Download PDF	52
3. Radical Calendars: The Commune Rising in Postbellum Internationalism Open Access Download PDF	79
4. Tasting Space: Sights of the Commune in Henry James’s Paris Open Access Download PDF	105
5. Restaging Horror: Insurgent Memories of the Commune in the 1930s Open Access Download PDF	130
Epilogue: Barricades Revisited – The Commune on Campus from FSM to SDS Open Access Download PDF	153
Notes Open Access Download PDF	160
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	197
Index Open Access Download PDF	215

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 18 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: October 19, 2016
ISBN: 9781474411219