| Description |
217 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Oxford studies in American literary history |
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Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The stamp act crisis and the sublime style of politics -- Wit and ridicule in revolutionary New York -- Satirizing the congress : ancient balladry and literary taste -- Loyalists and the author of Common sense -- New English rebellion. |
| Summary |
"Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works recently, but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely different view of the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in any of these accounts. By focusing on the literary projections of the loyalist cause, Gould dissolves the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility drawn from their American situation and upbringing. He shows that both sides claimed to be heritors of British civil discourse, Old World learning, and the genius of English culture. The first half of Writing the Rebellion deals with the ways 'political disputation spilled into arguments about style, form, and aesthetics, as though these subjects could secure (or ruin) the very status of political authorship.' Chapters in this section illustrate how loyalists attack patriot rhetoric by invoking British satires of an inflated Whig style by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Another chapter turns to Loyalist critiques of Congressional language and especially the Continental Association, which was responsible for radical and increasingly violent measures against the Loyalists. The second half of Gould's book looks at satiric adaptations of the ancient ballad tradition to see what happens when patriots and loyalists interpret and adapt the same text (or texts) for distinctive yet related purposes. The last two chapters look at the Loyalist response to Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the ways the concept of the author became defined in early America. Throughout the manuscript, Gould acknowledges the purchase English literary culture continued to have in revolutionary America, even among revolutionaries."--Publisher's website. |
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American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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American loyalists.
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American literature -- Revolutionary period (U.S.)
(OCoLC)fst01711007
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American loyalists. (OCoLC)fst00807279
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Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780199967896 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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019996789X (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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9780199967902 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0199967903 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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