Covenant and Republic

Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

AvPhilip Gould,Albert Gelpi

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of Puritanism. By situating historical writing about Puritanism in the context of the cultural forces of Republicanism and liberalism, his study reconsiders the emergence of the historical romance in the 1820s, before the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This 1997 book not only aids the Americanist recovery of this literary period, but also brings together literary studies of historical fiction and historical scholarship of early Republican political culture; in doing so, it offers a persuasive account of just what is at stake when one reads literature of and about the past.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-10-13
Mått:161 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521554992

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"Gould's Covenant and Republic offers insight not only into significant works that preceded the more often read and discussed historical romances of the nineteenth century but also into the contemporary social and political signficance of these works....a nicely detailed and thorough analysis of very complex issues." A. James Wohlpart, Atlantic Review

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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.