Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution
eBook - ePub

Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution

John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution

John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

About this book

Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other's progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams's presumption of Sewall's authorship of the Loyalist tracts Massachusettensis influenced his own magnum opus, Novanglus. The mystery is not why Adams presumed Sewall was his adversary in 1775 but why he was impelled to answer him.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138703827
eBook ISBN
9781351767422
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Editorial Note
  11. Preface
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Prologue: History
  14. 1 Friendship
  15. 2 John and Jonathan
  16. 3 Politics
  17. 4 The King’s Law
  18. 5 Imagining Revolution
  19. 6 Massachusettensis and Novanglus
  20. 7 Debate
  21. 8 The British Question
  22. 9 Revolution
  23. Epilogue: War and Reunion
  24. Index