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

• Autore: Blakemore Steven
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/001
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 - History and criticism; Revolutionary literature, American - History and criticism; Intertextuality
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution
• 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: <span><span><span>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.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span></span>
• Titolo autorizzato: Literature, intertextuality, and the American Revolution
• ISBN: 1-61147-573-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787173603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II