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Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameWriting the Rebellion : Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics

Publication Year2016

TypeTextbook

AuthorPhilip Gould

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History

SeriesOxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Reviews"Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature"...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review"Writing the Rebellion presents a methodologically rich approach to Loyalist writings that have fallen through the cracks of national literary histories. Much more than a recovery effort, Gould's important book reveals the dynamic relation between literary forms and Revolutionary conflict and shows how Loyalist aesthetics continue to resonate in liberal political theory." --Sandra Gustafson, author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the EarlyAmerican Republic"Writing the Rebellion is not only a groundbreaking study of colonial American literary debates, but it also sets a new scholarly standard on Loyalist writing. Gould has produced the first major study of Loyalist writing to take the Loyalist position on its own terms as well as from opposing viewpoints. It's a lucid, richly documented study that will change how we read the literature of the American Revolution." --Leonard Tennenhouse, author of TheImportance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850"Writing the Rebellion refocuses attention on the losers of the American Revolution--and on the experience of loss itself. Gould's Loyalists dissented from critical categories we now invoke to evaluate American political literature. Severing virtue from politics, suspicious of the seductions of language, Loyalists did not believe there was an American 'public' in revolutionary America. By carefully recovering their intellectual world, Gould gives us atimely reminder of the history of a divided country." --Eric Slauter, author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution"Gould discusses the relationship between Britain and its North Atlantic colonies during the decades leading up to and including those colonists' Revolution..." -- American Literature, "Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature "...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review "Writing the Rebellion presents a methodologically rich approach to Loyalist writings that have fallen through the cracks of national literary histories. Much more than a recovery effort, Gould's important book reveals the dynamic relation between literary forms and Revolutionary conflict and shows how Loyalist aesthetics continue to resonate in liberal political theory." --Sandra Gustafson, author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic "Writing the Rebellion is not only a groundbreaking study of colonial American literary debates, but it also sets a new scholarly standard on Loyalist writing. Gould has produced the first major study of Loyalist writing to take the Loyalist position on its own terms as well as from opposing viewpoints. It's a lucid, richly documented study that will change how we read the literature of the American Revolution." --Leonard Tennenhouse, author of The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 "Writing the Rebellion refocuses attention on the losers of the American Revolution--and on the experience of loss itself. Gould's Loyalists dissented from critical categories we now invoke to evaluate American political literature. Severing virtue from politics, suspicious of the seductions of language, Loyalists did not believe there was an American 'public' in revolutionary America. By carefully recovering their intellectual world, Gould gives us a timely reminder of the history of a divided country." --Eric Slauter, author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution "Gould discusses the relationship between Britain and its North Atlantic colonies during the decades leading up to and including those colonists' Revolution..." -- American Literature, "Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature "...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review, "Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature"...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review"Writing the Rebellion presents a methodologically rich approach to Loyalist writings that have fallen through the cracks of national literary histories. Much more than a recovery effort, Gould's important book reveals the dynamic relation between literary forms and Revolutionary conflict and shows how Loyalist aesthetics continue to resonate in liberal political theory." --Sandra Gustafson, author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic"Writing the Rebellion is not only a groundbreaking study of colonial American literary debates, but it also sets a new scholarly standard on Loyalist writing. Gould has produced the first major study of Loyalist writing to take the Loyalist position on its own terms as well as from opposing viewpoints. It's a lucid, richly documented study that will change how we read the literature of the American Revolution." --Leonard Tennenhouse, author of The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850"Writing the Rebellion refocuses attention on the losers of the American Revolution--and on the experience of loss itself. Gould's Loyalists dissented from critical categories we now invoke to evaluate American political literature. Severing virtue from politics, suspicious of the seductions of language, Loyalists did not believe there was an American 'public' in revolutionary America. By carefully recovering their intellectual world, Gould gives us a timely reminder of the history of a divided country." --Eric Slauter, author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution"Gould discusses the relationship between Britain and its North Atlantic colonies during the decades leading up to and including those colonists' Revolution..." -- American Literature, "Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature "...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review "Writing the Rebellion presents a methodologically rich approach to Loyalist writings that have fallen through the cracks of national literary histories. Much more than a recovery effort, Gould's important book reveals the dynamic relation between literary forms and Revolutionary conflict and shows how Loyalist aesthetics continue to resonate in liberal political theory." --Sandra Gustafson, author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic "Writing the Rebellion is not only a groundbreaking study of colonial American literary debates, but it also sets a new scholarly standard on Loyalist writing. Gould has produced the first major study of Loyalist writing to take the Loyalist position on its own terms as well as from opposing viewpoints. It's a lucid, richly documented study that will change how we read the literature of the American Revolution." --Leonard Tennenhouse, author of The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850 "Writing the Rebellion refocuses attention on the losers of the American Revolution--and on the experience of loss itself. Gould's Loyalists dissented from critical categories we now invoke to evaluate American political literature. Severing virtue from politics, suspicious of the seductions of language, Loyalists did not believe there was an American 'public' in revolutionary America. By carefully recovering their intellectual world, Gould gives us a timely reminder of the history of a divided country." --Eric Slauter, author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 1

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal810.9/001

Table Of ContentIntroduction Chapter 1: The Stamp Act Crisis and the Sublime Style of Politics Chapter 2: Wit and Ridicule in Revolutionary New York Chapter 3: Satirizing the Congress: Ancient Balladry and Literary Taste Chapter 4: Loyalists and the Author of Common Sense Chapter 5: New English Rebellion Epilogue

SynopsisTraditional literary histories of Revolutionary-era America tend to privilege the works of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and other ardent Patriots eager to see the thirteen colonies sever all ties with the British Crown. Yet the literature produced by Loyalists - the faction of colonists opposed to severing ties with Britain - made up an equally important part of the nation's burgeoning literary culture. With ample attention to both Loyalists and Patriots, Writing the Rebellion reveals the complicated ways colonial Americans sought to reconstruct their English identities at a moment of political crisis, when the British Empire was falling apart in North America.Employing the methods of transatlantic literary studies, postcolonial theory, and the history of the book, Philip Gould considers how British Americans coped with what amounted to a cultural identity crisis. Each chapter addresses an important subject of literary history and literary form - sublime writing, wit, balladry, satire and burlesque, questions of authorship, and regional identification - to show how the literature of politics operated simultaneously as the site where aesthetic and cultural matters were also contested and reconfigured. By re-mapping the literature of revolutionary politics in this way, and accounting for the Loyalist presence in political debate, Writing the Rebellion offers a new literary and cultural history, not of the American Revolution but of an "American Rebellion.", Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America, dissolving the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility., Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works, but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely different view of the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in any of these accounts. By focusing on the literary projections of the loyalist cause, Gould dissolves the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility drawn from their American situation and upbringing. He shows that both sides claimed to be heritors of British civil discourse, Old World learning, and the genius of English culture. The first half of Writing the Rebellion deals with the ways "political disputation spilled into arguments about style, form, and aesthetics, as though these subjects could secure (or ruin) the very status of political authorship." Chapters in this section illustrate how loyalists attack patriot rhetoric by invoking British satires of an inflated Whig style by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. Another chapter turns to Loyalist critiques of Congressional language and especially the Continental Association, which was responsible for radical and increasingly violent measures against the Loyalists. The second half of Gould's book looks at satiric adaptations of the ancient ballad tradition to see what happens when patriots and loyalists interpret and adapt the same text (or texts) for distinctive yet related purposes. The last two chapters look at the Loyalist response to Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the ways the concept of the author became defined in early America. Throughout the manuscript, Gould acknowledges the purchase English literary culture continued to have in revolutionary America, even among revolutionaries.

LC Classification NumberPS186.G68 2016