Record Nr.

UNINA9910824925103321

Autore

Blakemore Steven

Titolo

Literature, intertextuality, and the American Revolution : from Common Sense to "Rip Van Winkle" / / Steven Blakemore

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2012
©2012

ISBN

1-61147-573-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/001

Soggetti

American literature - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 - History and criticism

Revolutionary literature, American - History and criticism

Intertextuality

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Literature, Intertextuality, And The American Revolution; Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1 Demystifying Metaphors: Paine''s Critique of British Origins and the Language of Empire; 2 The World Turned Upside Down: Scottish ""Second-Sight"" and Ironic Inversion in John Trumbull''s M''Fingal; Postscript: Allusive Appropriation and the Emigration of Virtue in M''Fingal; 3 Allegory, Androgyny, and Gender in Freneau''s ""The British Prison Ship""; 4 Crèvecoeur and the Subversion of the American Revolution; 5 Family Resemblances: The Texts and Contexts of ""Rip Van Winkle""; Conclusion

IndexAbout the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Dealing with five significant works of the American-Revolution era (1776-1820), the book crystallizes strategies of subversion in an intertextual war by authors reformulating the histories of other revolutions they believed shaped the American Revolution. The book exhumes the covert revolutionary histories, both Patriot and Loyalist, which underwrote their dialogue.