Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521555326)

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.

Author: Philip Gould
ISBN-10: 0521555329
ISBN-13: 9780521555326
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/11/2009
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d