Writing the Rebellion : Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America
ISBN: 9780199967896 | 019996789X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/7/2013
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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... MORE
Philip Gould is author of Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism and Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th Century Atlantic World. He co-edited Genius in Bondage: The Literature of the 18th Century Black Atlantic and The Cambridge Companion to 19th Century American Women's Writing. He served as President of the Society of Early Americanists.
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