Description:
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.
Brief description: J. Michelle Coghlan teaches American literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Her work on cultural memory, sensation, queer economies of desire, and American literature of the long nineteenth century has appeared in journals and edited books, including Arizona Quarterly, The Henry James Review, Transforming Henry James and Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers. She recently guest edited the "Tasting Modernism" special issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities.
Review Quotes: ...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"