Sensational Internationalism
The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:22nd Feb '18
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Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond 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. 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. memoryContributes to recent work on the global dimensions of pre-Popular front radical culture in the USAddresses a critical ongoing blind spot in American Studies by extending the borders of transatlantic affiliation beyond the confines of Anglo-American attachmentsOffers innovative readings of well-known and altogether neglected cultural texts
...a welcome, and specific, intervention....an impressively wide range of often neglected primary and archival texts. -- Scott Henkel, University of Wyoming * ALH Online Review, Series XIII *
This is a work that is both collectively illuminating and subjectively empowering. -- Michael J. Collins, University of Kent * American Nineteenth Century History 18:3 *
Michelle Coghlan's thoroughly researched and beautifully written study will greatly interest specialists in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture. -- Dean de la Motte, Salve Regina University * Review 19 *
Written with enviable clarity and style, Sensational Internationalism brings to life a history that by its end we are convinced should never be forgotten. -- Scott McCracken, Queen Mary University London * Textual Practice 32:2 *
In the wake of recent world-turning instances of public assembly and occupation from Cairo to St. Louis, the Paris Commune has once again declared its political urgency. Michelle Coghlan’s remarkable and virtually unprecedented study—methodologically rich, archivally vast, textually acute—explores the Commune’s U.S. afterlives, a longue durée of transatlantic feeling, with far-reaching and field-changing results. I’ve been waiting a long time for such a book. -- Eric Lott, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Skillfully researched and beautifully written, Sensational Internationalism broadens the contours of American cultural and political memory by bringing to life the profound reverberations produced in the States by what was on one level just a very brief moment in someone else’s history: the Paris Commune. Michelle Coghlan’s stunning archive lends her account breadth and authority missing in those that would minimize those effects or limit them to a solely labor phenomenon. -- Kristin Ross, New York University
- Winner of British Association of American Studies: Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize 2017
ISBN: 9781474431583
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 372g
232 pages