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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154329203321

Autore

Castronovo Russ

Titolo

Propaganda 1776 : secrets, leaks, and revolutionary communications in early America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-935492-8

0-19-935493-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Collana

Oxford studies in American literary history  Propaganda 1776

Disciplina

973.3/88

Soggetti

Propaganda - History - 18th century - United States

War and literature - History - 18th century - United States

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States - General

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Propaganda

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: printscapes and propaganda -- State secrets: Ben Franklin and Wikileaks -- Memes, plagiarism, and revolutionary drama -- From East India to the Boston Tea Party: propaganda at the extremes -- Epistolary propaganda: counterfeits, stolen letters, and transatlantic revolutions -- Aftermath: the poetry of the post-revolution.

Sommario/riassunto

Russ Castronovo looks at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau; providing various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it.