Covenant and Republic - Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

Klappentext A 1997 study of historical romance in the early American republic, with a particular focus on the historical literature of Puritanism. Zusammenfassung Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic! specifically the historical literature of Puritanism. This 1997 study both aids the Americanist recovery of this literary period and brings together literary studies of historical fiction and historical scholarship of early Republican political culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The new Ebenezer: republican virtue, the puritan fathers, and early national history-writing; 2. Catharine Sedgwick's 'Recital' of the Pequot War; 3. Refashioning the Republic: gender, ideology, and the politics of virtue in Hobomok and Hope Leslie; 4. The Hive of America: James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish and the History of King Philip's War; 5. Witch-hunting and the politics of reason; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Gould, Philip (Brown University Gould
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521555326
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55532-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies