Thomas Paine and the Literature of Revolution

Thomas Paine created a new literature of politics bridging political philosophy and everyday knowledge.

Autorentext
Edward Larkin is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Richmond. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture on American studies and literature at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Tallinn, Estonia, during the 2004-05 academic year. Larkin is the editor of a new edition of Common Sense (Broadview Press, 2004) and has published numerous articles in Early American Literature and Arizona Quarterly.

Zusammenfassung
Thomas Paine was a skilled and sophisticated writer and thinker who transformed political literature in the late eighteenth century by creating a new literature of politics that bridged political philosophy and the everyday, commonsensical knowledge of ordinary people.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Inventing an American public: the Pennsylvania Magazine and revolutionary American political discourse; 2. 'Could the Wolf Bleat Like the Lamb': Paine's critique of the early American public sphere; 3. Writing revolutionary history; 4. The science of revolution: technological metaphors and scientific methodology in Rights of Man and The Age of Reason; 5. 'Strong Friends and Violent Enemies': the historical construction of Thomas Paine through the nineteenth century; Epilogue: Paine and nineteenth-century American literary history; Works cited; Index.

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