Poetry wars : verse and politics in the American Revolution and early republic /
During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and a...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The poetics of resistance
- War and literary war
- Poetry and conspiracy
- The language of liberty
- The voice of the people
- Mirror images
- The triumph of democracy
- Epilogue.