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

"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 Winkl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Blakemore, Steven (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison [N.J.] : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition.
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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.