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Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a
world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism
from a global perspective. Frequently reprinted and translated into
many languages, its readers included statesmen, historians,
philosophers and writers throughout Europe and North America.
Underpinning the encyclopedic scope of the work was an extensive
transnational network of correspondents and informants assiduously
cultivated by Raynal to obtain the latest expert knowledge. How
these networks shaped Raynal's writing and what they reveal about
eighteenth-century intellectual sociability, trade and global
interaction is the driving theme of this current volume. From
text-based analyses of the anthropology that structures Raynal's
history of human society to articles that examine new archival
material relating to his use of written and oral sources,
contributors to this book explore among other topics: how the
Histoire created a forum for intellectual interaction and
collaboration; how Raynal created and manipulated his own image as
a friend to humanity as a promotional strategy; Raynal's
intellectual debts to contemporary economic theorists; the
transnational associations of booksellers involved in marketing the
Histoire; the Histoire's reception across Europe and North America
and its long-lasting influence on colonial historiography and
political debate well into the nineteenth century.
Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the
Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the
utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural
politics of migrant communities and international relations, this
volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly
perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas
since the European conquest. Subjects covered include documentary
and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction, the collection
of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation
of indigenous traditions, the cultural impact of Christian missions
and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed
to European readers, the development of Latin American artistic
traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical
antiquity into modern popular culture, the contribution of
Afro-descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the
erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of
California since the nineteenth century. By offering accessible and
well-illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases, the
volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and
methodological issues, which can be exploited in a teaching context
as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative
and transnational framework.
Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the
Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the
utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural
politics of migrant communities and international relations, this
volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly
perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas
since the European conquest. Subjects covered include documentary
and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction, the collection
of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation
of indigenous traditions, the cultural impact of Christian missions
and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed
to European readers, the development of Latin American artistic
traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical
antiquity into modern popular culture, the contribution of
Afro-descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the
erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of
California since the nineteenth century. By offering accessible and
well-illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases, the
volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and
methodological issues, which can be exploited in a teaching context
as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative
and transnational framework.
Fifty years on from Ian Watt’s pioneering study, The Rise of the
novel, Jenny Mander brings together the work of bibliographers,
literary scholars and socio-cultural historians to present a new
European perspective on the development of the
genre. Remapping the rise of the European
novel investigates how prose fiction between 1500 and 1800
was simultaneously shaped by the development of the nation-state
and by multiple crossings of geographical, cultural and linguistic
boundaries. Drawing on evidence from France, Spain, Italy, Germany,
Russia, Greece, as well as England, authors argue for a more
inclusive history that identifies origins in different times and
places, and trace how they interact or diverge. Through detailed
case studies and bibliometric analyses, the authors explore the
importance of continental and colonial travel in fashioning
early-modern novelistic discourse, and examine how translation
helps to disseminate ‘novel’ fictions. Discussion of popularity
and pleasure – topics often excluded from traditional histories
of the novel– sheds new light on the ways we think about the
relationship between literary and social history.
By according a central place to the history of reading, Circles of
learning radically rethinks the nature of first-person narrative
during this period and reconsiders its relation to the
autobiographical discourse. Jenny Mander argues that to understand
better both the history of the novel and that of the autobiography
we need first to examine the position of the modern reader. The
study begins with a critical analysis of Genettian narratology in
order to foreground a number of important presuppositions of
twentieth-century reading practices, and it goes on to show how
these have shaped modern criticism of past texts. Through a
detailed examination of eighteenth-century prefactory discourse and
Marivaux's concept of personal style as put forward in his
journalistic writings, Jenny Mander demonstrates how
twentieth-century interpretations can be brought into question by
the eighteenth-century novel itself. Adducing models of good
reading promoted by pedagogic literature and art as well as by
specific scenes of reading within many novels, she is able to
ground an alternative analysis of Marivaux's Paysan parvenu and
Prevost's Memoires d'un homme de qualite in the practices of
eighteenth-century readers, drawing further support from
contemporary reviews. This challenging study concludes by showing
not only how Prevost's writing sets these practices in yet clearer
relief, but also how he points to and participates in their
transformation. Offering a fresh perspective on first-person
narrative at a formative moment in the history of the French novel,
Circles of leaning will interest scholars and theorists of modern
prise fiction and autobiography aas well as tose specialising in
eighteenth-century literature.
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