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Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 103

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521555329
ISBN13: 9780521555326
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 11 2009
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Covenant and Republic 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, this study reconsiders the emergence of the historical romance in the 1820s, before the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This 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 new account of just what is at stake when one reads literature of and about the past.

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