Writing the rebellion : loyalists and the literature of politics in British America

Writing the rebellion : loyalists and the literature of politics in British America

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

217 p. ; 25 cm.

810.9 G696 2013

(OCoLC)810442346

Cultural history of loyalist writing in early America; first half 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"; second half looks at satiric adaptations of the ancient ballad tradition to see what happens when patriots and loyalists interpret and adapt the same text 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"--provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-212) 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.
L2014M137

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