- Email:
- saknott@indiana.edu
- Website:
- https://history.indiana.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/knott_sarah.html
- Department:
- History
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
Ballantine 866
Ballantine 866
I am interested in what made the late eighteenth century revolutionary. My first book traced the uses of sensibility in the American Revolution—how revolutionaries sought to make a break from the British Empire, and to make new selves and a new society, by the canny deployment of sentiment. I have also explored how contemporaries witnessed revolution, tacking across sites from North America to France to Haiti. How were first-person accounts of revolution circulated, translated, and reinterpreted across the Atlantic world? A second set of interests are captured in the title of an interdisciplinary volume co-edited with Barbara Taylor: Women, Gender and Enlightenment (2007) and in my recent Mother is a Verb (2019).