Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Historicity of Historical Fiction
- 1 The New Ebenezer: Republican Virtue, the Puritan Fathers, and Early National History-Writing
- 2 Catharine Sedgwick's “Recital” of the Pequot War
- 3 Refashioning the Republic: Gender, Ideology, and the Politics of Virtue in Hobomok and Hope Leslie
- 4 The “Hive of America”: James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish and the History of King Philip's War
- 5 Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason
- Afterword: American Origins of Puritan Selves
- Notes
- Index
- Titles in the series
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Historicity of Historical Fiction
- 1 The New Ebenezer: Republican Virtue, the Puritan Fathers, and Early National History-Writing
- 2 Catharine Sedgwick's “Recital” of the Pequot War
- 3 Refashioning the Republic: Gender, Ideology, and the Politics of Virtue in Hobomok and Hope Leslie
- 4 The “Hive of America”: James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish and the History of King Philip's War
- 5 Witch-Hunting and the Politics of Reason
- Afterword: American Origins of Puritan Selves
- Notes
- Index
- Titles in the series
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- Covenant and RepublicHistorical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism, pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996