Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Traveling Through Revolutions: Chastellux, Barlow, and Transatlantic Political Cultures, 1776–1812
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Chapter 3
Volney, Frankenstein , and the Lessons of History
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Chapter 4
Benjamin Franklin, Native Americans, and the Commerce of Civility
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Chapter 5
A Language for the Nation: A Transatlantic Problematic
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Chapter 6
International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749–1812
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Chapter 7
Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel
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Chapter 8
Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Nursery Tales on the Frontier
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Chapter 9
“That Miserable Continent”: Cultural Pessimism and the Idea of “America” in Cornelis de Pauw
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Chapter 10
The Illusion of the Illuminati: the Counterconspiratorial Origins of Post-Revolutionary Conservatism
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Chapter 11
“I will use no daggers! I will unfold a tale — !”: Historical Sensitivity and Generic Contiguity in the Narrative Theories of William Godwin
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Chapter 12
Edmund Burke, Historism, and History
Attention for Chapter 6:
International Embarrassment: A Transatlantic Morphology of Blushing, 1749–1812