Author : Benjamin S. Lawson
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Rereading the Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rereading the Revolution write by Benjamin S. Lawson. This book was released on 2000. Rereading the Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approximately fifty historical novels dealing with the American Revolution were published in the United States in the single ten-year period from 1896 to 1906. Benjamin Lawson critically examines the narrative strategies employed in these many novels, the ways in which fiction is made to serve the purpose of vivifying national history. The British conventions of the historical romance in one sense seem to preclude radical declarations of literary independence even in books purportedly about a war against Britain. Working within the formula, these many writers nonetheless created fictional plots which parallel and reflect the enveloping concerns of the War for Independence. Just as the war was sometimes viewed as an Anglo-American family squabble, these metaphorical narratives depict familial and love interests.