Title: Reading the early republic
First published: 2004
Description: "Reading the Early Republic focuses attention on the forgotten dynamism of thought in the founding era. In every case, the documents, novels, pamphlets, sermons, journals, and slave narratives of the early American nation are richer and more intricate than modern readers have perceived." "Reading the Early Republic uses the living textual tradition against history to prove its case. The first formative writings are more than sacred artifacts. They remain the touchstones of the durable promise and the problems in republican thought."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism, Textual, English language, Historiography, History, Political culture, Rhetoric, Sources, Style, Textual Criticism, American literature, history and criticism, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1815, 18th century, Revolution, 1775-1783
LC classification: E209 .F46 2004