Awards

• Nominated for DAAD Book Prize of the German Studies Association 2016
• Nominated for George L. Mosse Prize 2016
• Nominated for MLA Prize for a First Book 2015
• Nominated for Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize 2016

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Engberg-Pedersen s book can be characterized as an epistemological seismograph, registering, recording, and evaluating the tremors that the Napoleonic warfare sent through many fields of knowledge: military science, literature, philosophy, pedagogy, historiography, and cartography. It detects a radical transformation of the order of things in the period around 1800. But moving beyond Foucault, Engberg-Pedersen argues that this transformation installs not simply history, but chance as the organizing principle of modernity. He substantiates this argument with hitherto little known historical material (e.g. game design and military cartography), as well as with perceptive readings of canonical literary texts ranging from Tristram Shandy to vintage nineteenth-century European novels. All this is done in a style both lucid and elegant.--Chenxi Tang, University of California, Berkeley

One of the best books I ve read in an age It s a stunning achievement: beautifully written, meticulously argued, bristling with ideas and substantive insights.--Derek Gregory geographicalimaginations.com (04/14/2015)

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Anders Engberg-Pedersen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark.

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