Atlantic Enlightenment

Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Francis D. Cogliano is Professor in American History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

'Stimulating and thought provoking. This first rate collection of essays explores a variety of intersecting national and disciplinary Enlightenments, and models a range of productive approaches to Transatlantic Studies. It also usefully contributes to current rethinking of "the" Enlightenment.' Eve Tavor Bannet, University of Oklahoma, USA ’...a learned and professional compilation that makes a solid contribution to the burgeoning literature of transatlantic studies.’ Richard Gravil, author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 ’Susan Manning and Francis D. Cogliano have collected an interesting and insightful series of essays defining and exploring aspects of the 'Altantic' Enlightenment. ...this collection of essays is remarkably successful in promoting both a broader Atlantic perspective on the Enlightenment and a more interdisciplinary approach to its study.’ Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies ’The cast of contributing scholars is an impressive and carefully constructed mixture of established and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines. All of the essays are well written, accessible to scholars outside their respective disciplines, and thoroughly researched...’ Journal of British Studies ’... a very timely contribution to a developing field of study. As events such as The Idea of America show, the concept of Atlantic scholarship is proving highly useful for scholars across disciplines and periods, and this book outlines a number of different critical approaches which will help to define and complicate both the Atlantic Enlightenment, and the Atlantic nineteenth century.’ 19, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long 19th Century ’By presenting the work of geographers and literary scholars as well as historians, this volume offers a set of richly textured, multidisciplinary essays that substantially broadens our understanding of this newer approach, especially as it applies to the English-speaking North American

• 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.