In marking Independence Day 2021, the Reading Circle recommends recent scholarly books on the late eighteen- and early nineteenth-century revolutions and independence movements. Students would learn a great deal about hemispheric, transatlantic, and American literary history by checking out the following excellent studies by scholars in English, French, History, Music, & Spanish:
· Karen Salt, The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the 19th-Century Atlantic World (Liverpool University Press)
· Kacy Dowd Tillman, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution (U Mass Press)
· Caitlin Annette Fitz, Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions (Norton)
· Chiara Cillerai, Voices of Cosmopolitanism in Early American Writing and Culture (Palgrave)
· Glenda Goodman, Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press)
Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Cambridge University Press)
We also recommend a book published back in 2005 for an interesting take on the French Revolution. It has been re-released this year in paperback.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (University of California Press)
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Check back every Monday for reading suggestions from the Reading Circle. For more book ideas, see these past Monday posts:
A Literary Mystery: Who wrote The Woman of Colour (Olivia Fairfax) HERE
Foreign Language Films to watch this summer HERE
Fun summer books recommended by friends at the Calvin T. Ryan Library HERE
History and Literature of Spaceflight reading recommendations HERE
Memorial Day reading recommendations HERE