Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
"A fascinating recent stud[y] of masculinity in early America."--Early American Literature"A dazzling success. . . . Anyone interested in the history of high culture, literature, citizenship, or national identity in America will delight in Kaplan's nuanced and insightful work."--Maryland Historical Magazine"[A] tightly constructed and well-written book. . . . [Kaplan's] close reading of printed and manuscript sources subtly teases meaning out of often opaque material."--The Historian"Makes . . . significant contributions to the evolving cultural history of the eighteenth century. . . . Well-researched and well-written. . . . The best historical monograph on Shaftesburian literary communities in the post-Revolutionary period."--Eighteenth-Century Studies"Will be valued for its imaginative and nuanced insights into post-Revolutionary literary culture."--Journal of Southern History"[A] treasure trove of remarkable insights. . . . Kaplan's brilliant work deserves wide readership for the way in which it reveals how various Federalists invented a version of citizenship predicated on social and cultural rather than poltical bonds."--The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Forces us to move beyond a national framework and to foreground the local and regional networks at work in the post-Revolutionary era."--Common-Place"A rich source of information for scholars of the early republic, gender, and American cultural production and print media."--Journal of American History"[A] thoughtful book."--Bookforum"A thoughtful and well-researched book."--The New England Quarterly"Insightful. . . . Subtly nuanced. . . . Delineates the mutable character of, and complex relationship between, those broad political and cultural concepts . . . that some scholars of eighteenth-century America tend to deploy rather loosely or monolithically."--William and Mary Quarterly"Presents . . . theoretically sophisticated arguments that are nevertheless grounded in well-researched historical material contexts. . . . Brings substantive historical research to bear on our ways of thinking about literature and the public sphere in the early U.S."--College Literature"Imaginatively conceived and beautifully written."--H-Net Reviews