| Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism Contributor(s): Gould, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521554993 ISBN-13: 9780521554992 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.209 |
| LCCN: 96006233 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.2 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |