American Revolutionary Revolutionary Literature

Cultural Identity and Literary Imagination from 1768 to 1800

Syllabus
Literature of the Early Republic

Aldridge, Alfred O. Early American Literature: A Comparatist Approach. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1982.
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume I: 1590-1820. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.

Berkin, Carol, ed. Encyclopedia of American Literature. The Colonial and Revolutionary Era, 1607 1814. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
Burbank, Rex J., and Jack B. Moore, eds. The Literature of Early America. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1967. Cady, Edwin H., ed. Literature of the Early Republic. New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Co., 1950. Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986. Downes, Paul. Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. Elliott, Emory. Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the Early Republic, 1725-1810. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982. Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. Elliott, Emory. The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. Emerson, Everett, ed. American Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolutionary Years. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1977. Fender, Stephen. American Literature in Context, 1620-1830. London: Methuen, 1983

Fliegelman, Jay. Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority, 1750 1800. Cambridge et al: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982. Giles, Paul. Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Gilmore, Michael T., ed. Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1980. Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing. New York: Penguin, 1994.

Horner, George F. Press, 1966.

Colonial and Federalist American Writing. New York : Odyssey

Howe, John. Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2004.
Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner. The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800. New York: Routledge, 1997. Larkin, Edward. Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. Lauter, Paul, et al, eds. Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed., vol. 1. Boston: Houghton, 1998. Lawson, Benjamin. S. Rereading the Revolution: The Turn-of-the-Century American Revolutionary War Novel. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 2000. Mulford, Carla, ed. Teaching the Literatures of Early America. New York, MLA, 1999.

Pickering, James H., ed. The World Turned Upside Down: Prose and Poetry of the American Revolution. Port Washington, NY, et al: Kennikat Press, 1975. Schulman, Lydia Dittler. Paradise Lost and the Rise of the American Republic. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1992. Shaffer, Jason. Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Silverman, Kenneth. A Cultural History of the American Revolution: Painting, Music, Literature, and the Theatre in the Colonies and the United States from the Treaty of Paris to the Inauguration of George Washington, 1763-1789. New York: Crowell , 1976.

Singer, Helmut. A Selection from American Literature, from the Revolutionary Period to the Present. With Literary and Biographical Introductions and Annotations. Mnchen et al: Blutenburg et al, 1979. Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Aldershot, Engl., et al: Ashgate, 2005. Wertheimer, Eric. Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 2006. Williams, Daniel E., ed. Libertys Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006. Zafar, Rafia. We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1997.
General Studies on the American Revolution Adams, Willi Paul. The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era. Trans. Rita Kimber and Robert Kimber. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1980. Albanese, Catherine L. Sons of the Fathers: The Civil Religion of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1976. Alden, John Richard. The American Revolution, 1775-1783. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1954. Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1931.

Arieli, Yehoshua. Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1964. Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967. Bailyn, Bernard, and John B. Hench, eds. The Press and the American Revolution. Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1980. Becker, Robert A. Revolution, Reform, and the Politics of American Taxation, 1763-1783. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1980. Bonwick, Colin. The American Revolution. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991. Countryman, Edward. The American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. Douglass, Elisha P. Rebels and Democrats: The Struggle for Equal Political Rights and Majority Rule during the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1955. Egnal, Marc. A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1988. Ferguson, E. James. The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1961. Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution. Library of Congress Symposium on the American Revolution, 1973. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1973. Greene, Jack P., ed. The American Revolution: Its Character and Limits. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1978. Greene, Jack P., and Pauline Maier, eds. Interdisciplinary Studies of the American Revolution. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1976. Henderson, H. James. Party Politics in the Continental Congress. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Hoffer, Peter Charles. Revolution and Regeneration: Life Cycle and the Historical Vision of the Generation of 1776. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1983. Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Religion in a Revolutionary Age. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994. Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. The Transforming Hand of Revolution: Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Social Movement. Perspectives on the American Revolution. Charlottesville: United States Capitol Historical Society , Univ. Press of Virginia, 1995. Jameson, J. Franklin. The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1926. Jensen, Merrill. The Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968. Kammen, Michael. A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination. New York: Knopf, 1978. Keller, Rosemary. Patriotism and the Female Sex: Abigail Adams and the American Revolution. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1994. Kurtz, Stephen G., and James H. Hutson, eds. Essays on the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1973. Langley, Lester D. The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1996.

Lewis, James A. The Final Campaign of the American Revolution: Rise and Fall of the Spanish Bahamas. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1991. Lutz, Donald S. Popular Consent and Popular Control: Whig Political Theory in the Early State Constitutions. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1980. McCusker, John J. Rum and the American Revolution: The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies. 2 vols. New York and London: Garland, 1989. McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790. 2d ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979. McIlwain, Charles Howard. The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation. New York: Macmillan, 1923. Maier, Pauline. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. New York: Knopf, 1980. Main, Jackson Turner. The Social Structure of Revolutionary America. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1965. Main, Jackson Turner. The Sovereign States, 1775-1783. New York: New Viewpoints, 1973. Main, Jackson Turner. The Upper House in Revolutionary America, 1763-1788. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1967. Martin, James Kirby. In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretative Exploration of the American Revolution. Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM, 1979. Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Vol. II of the Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1982. Morgan, Edmund S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977. Morgan, Edmund S. The Challenge of the American Revolution. New York: Norton, 1974. Morris, Richard B., ed. The American Revolution, 1763-1783. A Bicentennial Collection. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1970. Nash, Gary B. The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1979. Nevins, Allan. The American States during and after the Revolution, 1775-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1959-1964. Parker, John, and Carol Urness, eds. The American Revolution: A Heritage of Change. Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1975. Purvis, Thomas L. Revolutionary America, 1763-1800. New York: Facts on File, 1995. Rahe, Paul A. Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1992. Rakove, Jack N. The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress. New York: Knopf, 1979. Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority of Rights. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Reid, John Phillip. Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Power to Tax. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Schlenther, Boyd Stanley. Charles Thomson: A Patriot's Pursuit. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 1990. Verhoeven, W.M., ed. Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Voices of the American Revolution. Ed. by The Peoples Bicentennial Commission. New York: Bantam Books, 1974. Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Chapel Hill: IEAHC, Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1969. Young, Alfred F., ed. The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 1976. Background & Ideological Underpinnings Andrews, Charles M. The Colonial Background of the American Revolution: Four Essays in American Colonial History. Rev. ed. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1931. Out of print. E210 A55 Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967. In print in paperback, $18.00. JA84 U5 B3 Bernstein, Richard B. with Kym S. Rice. Are We To Be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1987. Christie, Ian R., and Benjamin W. Labaree. Empire or Independence, 1760-1776: A BritishAmerican Dialogue on the Coming of the American Revolution. New York: Norton, 1976. Cohen, Warren I., ed. The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations. Vol. I: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865. By Bradford Perkins. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993. Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1996. Development of a Revolutionary Mentality. The Library of Congress Symposium on the American Revolution, 1972. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972. Dworetz, Steven M. The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism and the American Revolution. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1990. Gipson, Lawrence Henry. The Coming of the Revolution, 1763-1775. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Howe, John R., ed. The Role of Ideology in the American Revolution. New York et al: Holt & Rinehart, 1970. Jennings, Francis. The Creation of America: Through Revolution to Empire. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Matson, Cathy D., and Peter S. Onuf. A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. American Political Thought. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1990. White, Morton. The Philosophy of the American Revolution. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1978. Wood, Gordon. The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Declaration of Independence Becker, Carl L. The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas. New York: Random House, 1958. Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Guidebooks & Encyclopedias Gelbert, Doug. American Revolutionary War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections: A State-by-State Guidebook to Places Open to the Public. McFarland & Co., 1998. Greene, Jack P., and J. R. Pole, eds. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Ltd., 1991. Murray, Stuart. American Revolution. In Association with the Smithsonian Institution. New York: DK Eyewitness Books, 2005. Purvis, Thomas L. A Dictionary of Early American History. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995. Bibliographies Gephart, Ronald M., comp. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1984. Shy, John, comp. The American Revolution. Goldentree Bibliographies in American History. Northbrook, Ill.: AHM, 1973. Smith, Dwight L., ed. Era of the American Revolution: A Bibliography. Clio Bibliography Series. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1975.