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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blakemore, Steven
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Demystifying metaphors: Paine's critique of British origins and the language of empire
  • 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
  • Allegory, androgyny, and gender in Freneau's The British prison ship
  • Crèvecoeur and the subversion of the American revolution
  • Family resemblances: the texts and contexts of Rip Van Winkle.