Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

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Philip Gould (Professor of English, Professor of English, Brown University)

Writing the Rebellion

Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

Philip Gould (Professor of English, Professor of English, Brown University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
09 June 2016

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; American War of Independence

Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

"Traditional literary histories of Revolutionary-era America tend to privilege the works of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and other ardent Patriots eager to see the thirteen colonies sever all ties with the British Crown. Yet the literature produced by Loyalists--the faction of colonists opposed to severing ties with Britain--made up an equally important part of the nation's burgeoning literary culture. With ample attention to both Loyalists and Patriots, Writing the Rebellion reveals the complicated ways colonial Americans sought to reconstruct their English identities at a moment of political crisis, when the British Empire was falling apart in North America.

Employing the methods of transatlantic literary studies, postcolonial theory, and the history of the book, Philip Gould considers how British Americans coped with what amounted to a cultural identity crisis. Each chapter addresses an important subject of literary history and literary form--sublime writing, wit, balladry, satire and burlesque, questions of authorship, and regional identification--to show how the literature of politics operated simultaneously as the site where aesthetic and cultural matters were also contested and reconfigured. By re-mapping the literature of revolutionary politics in this way, and accounting for the Loyalist presence in political debate, Writing the Rebellion offers a new literary and cultural history, not of the American Revolution but of an ""American Rebellion."""

By: Philip Gould (Professor of English Professor of English Brown University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 3
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 348g
ISBN: 9780190494469
ISBN 10: 0190494468
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 09 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philip Gould is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres at Brown University. He is the author of Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism and Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th-Century Atlantic World.

Reviews for Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency ... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing. * American Historical Review * Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters. * Early American Literature *