Author : Ira D. Gruber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN :
Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Author : Larry J. Reynolds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300042429
Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and shaped the characters, plots, and themes of the American renaissance. He traces the impact of the revolutions on Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau, showing that the upheavals abroad both inspired and disturbed. Extraordinarily well informed and creative treatment of the influences of the 1848-49 European revolutions on writers of the American Renaissance...The book is especially effective in providing a historical context for reading major writings. It demonstrates influences at work at a number of levels and presents historical narrative and subtle readings of literary texts with equal clarity. Highly recommended.- Choice
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Steven Blakemore
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611475732
Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776-82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground in assessing the strategies of subversion and intertextuality used during the American Revolution. Blakemore also crystallizes the historical contexts that link these works together – contexts that have been missed or overlooked by critics and scholars. The five works additionally illuminate issues of history (The Norman Conquest, the English Civil War, and the French Revolution) and gender as they impinge on American-revolutionary discourse. The result is five new readings of significant revolutionary-era works that suggest fruitful entries into other literatures of the Revolution. Blakemore demonstrates the nexus between literature and history in the revolutionary era and how it created an intertextual dialogue in the formation of the first postcolonial critiques of the British Empire.
Author : Russ Castronovo
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199354901
Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda. Truth, clarity, and honesty were declared virtues of the period - but rumors, falsehoods, forgeries, and unauthorized publication were no less the life's blood of liberty. Looking at famous patriots like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine; the playwright Mary Otis Warren; and the poet Philip Freneau, Castronovo provides various anecdotes that demonstrate the ways propaganda was - contrary to our instinctual understanding - fundamental to democracy rather than antithetical to it. By focusing on the persons and methods involved in Revolutionary communications, Propaganda 1776 both reconsiders the role that print culture plays in historical transformation and reexamines the widely relevant issue of how information circulates in a democracy.
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1440627053
In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still strive today.
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1897
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Moses Coit Tyler
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1879
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Judy Dodge Cummings
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1619302470
Kids love stories about underdogs, and the American Revolution is among the most famous of these tales. Desperate to be an independent country free from Britain, the rebel colonists relied on their cunning wit and visionary leadership to win an impossible war. And then they faced the real hardship—creating a country out of a victorious but chaotic society. Using engaging text, hands-on activities, and links to primary sources, The American Revolution: Experience the Battle for Independence shows readers how rebel soldiers fought in horrific conditions while their families faced their own hardships for the sake of freedom. Students examine wartime propaganda to discover the truth about events leading up to the war, and engage in vibrant debate, strategic planning, and literary deconstruction to understand the official documents upon which America is founded. Building a marshmallow cannon and creating real colonial food are some of the projects that engage readers’ design skills. Essential questions require readers to activate their critical thinking skills to discover the truth about the most important moment in American history. The American Revolution meets Common Core State Standards for literacy in history and social studies; Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.
