Propaganda 1776 - Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Printscapes and Propaganda


• I. State Secrets: Ben Franklin and WikiLeaks


• II. Memes, Plagiarism, and Revolutionary Drama


• III. From East India to the Boston Tea Party: Propaganda at the Extremes


• IV. Epistolary Propaganda: Counterfeits, Stolen Letters, and Transatlantic Revolutions


• V. Aftermath: The Poetry of the Post-Revolution


• Coda


• Bibliography

About the author

Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era; Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom.

Summary

Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda.

Additional text

This is a refreshing and highly readable contribution to the field of early American Studies that at the same time holds up a mirror to the hashtag activists of today.

Product details

• Authors: Russ Castronovo, Russ (Dorothy Draheim Professor of Eng Castronovo, Russ (Dorothy Draheim Professor of English Castronovo, Castronovo Russ
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9780199354900
• ISBN: 978-0-19-935490-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History; Oxford Studies in American Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Propaganda, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Political control and freedoms