Thomas Paine and the literature of revolution / Edward Larkin.
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, common-sensical knowledge of ordinary people.
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Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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.