Republicanism and the American Gothic

Author(s) Marilyn Michaud

Language: English

Genre(s): History

Series: Gothic Literary Studies

  • September 2009 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708321461
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708322338
  • · eBook - epub - 9781783163595

This book is a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies. Specifically, it examines in detail the transatlantic influence of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century libertarian and anti-authoritarian thought on British and American Revolutionary culture.

Author(s): Marilyn Michaud

Marilyn Michaud was English Department instructor of Literature and Writing at Ryerson University. She died in 2012.

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