1st Edition
French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions The Visual History of a Colonial Mirage
Introduction
Prologue
Chapter 1. The Images of America in the New World Debate
Les Indes Galantes and American Enlightenment
La Tenture des Indes and American Inferiority
The Patagonian Giants and American Corruption
Chapter 2. The Images of America in the Luxury Debate
The Vues des ports de France and American Trade
L’Histoire des deux Indes and American Colonization
La Robe à la Créole and American Influences
Part I. The American Revolution
Chapter 3. The Franco-American Alliance as Franklin
Franklin’s Image and Covert Aid to the American Revolution
Franklinmania and Official Support for the American Cause
Franklin’s Allegories and the Franco-American Victory
Chapter 4. The War of Independence as a World War
The Capture of Grenada and the Control of the Seas
L’Amérique Liberée and the Balance of Power
The Four Continents and 18th-century Geopolitics
Chapter 5. The United States as an Agrarian Ideal
L’Enfant’s Diamond Eagle and the Society of the Cincinnati
Huet’s Liberté Américaine and French Agrarian Idealism
Houdon’s George Washington and the American Cultivator
Chapter 6. North America as Nouvelle-France
Eliot’s Carte générale des États-Unis and French Vision of North America
Le Barbier’s Canadien Pleurant and the Mourning of Nouvelle-France
Crèvecœur’s Esquisses des rivières de l’Ohio and the Dream of a Nouvelle France
Part II. The French Revolution
Chapter 7. The United States in the Construction of a New France
Franklin, Michel Gérard, and the French Cultivator
Le Bonhomme Richard, le Père Gérard, and the French Cincinnatus
L’Amérique Liberée, la France libératrice, and the Empire of Liberty
Chapter 8. The Building of Nouvelles Frances in North America
Gallipolis, from Collective Utopia to Financial Scandal
Castorland, from Sweet Dreams to Bitter Realities
French Asylum, from Belle Nature to Frontier Life
Chapter 9. The Collapse of France’s American Dreams
The Slave Revolts and the Abolition of Slavery
The Burning of Cap Français and the Retrocession of Louisiana
Toussaint Louverture and the Independence of Haiti
Chapter 10. The Absence of America in Napoleonic Reconstruction
The Haitian Revolution and Napoleonic Propaganda
The Absence of America in Napoleonic Exoticism
The Image of Atala and Napoleonic Opposition
Epilogue
Chapter 11. The Legend of Champ d’Asile
The Vine and Olive Society in Alabama
The Champ d’Asile in Texas
The Rallying Cry of the Liberal Press
The Uchronic Image of Nouvelle-France
Biography
Catherine Dossin is an Associate Professor of Art History at Purdue University, Catherine Dossin is the author of The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s: A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds (2015), the co-editor with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel of Circulations in the Global History of Art (2015), the co-author with Lynn Boland of Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris (2017), and the editor of France and the Visual Arts since 1945 (2018).
