... imagined as glorious. Historical scholarship has long assessed the mania for cutting roads and canals into the landscape. But engaging an emerging infrastructuralism—and turning to imaginative texts that exist underneath the ground typically trod by US literary studies, from Philip Freneau’s celebratory...

... issues; it attempts to write an American epic, found a new literary tradition, and pro- duce a cohesive national identity. From Phillis Wheatley to Philip Freneau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Walt Whitman, and Robert Lowell to Robert Hayden, American writers have used the poetic form to express...

... Trumbull, Philip Freneau, and Timothy Dwight but also Phillis Wheatley and Joel Barlow, he finds that political poetry has a “genre or cultural form” (3). Wells asserts that poetry has been ignored in the context of early nationalism. Instead of being “derivative or imitative,” he argues, such poetry...

... weeds but ill express / The poignant grief that all confess The con- vention of pseudonymous publication adopted by the author, Philip Freneau, reinforces a sense (compounded by cross-gendering) of the transitivity...

.... Reading the literature of the American Revolution as itself engaged in a textual “war” over the idea of America, Blakemore examines the political significance of intertextuality to this war. Chapters devoted to works by Thomas Paine, John Trumbull, Philip Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip Freneau, and Charles Brockden Brown, Goudie argues that we attend to the shadowy pres- ence of the West Indian Creole in the formation of the early cultures of the United States. He...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... of the Creole were in direct contradiction with the image of a new republic of political freedom and economic prosperity that the United States wished to project. Throughout chapters discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip...

... discussing both the political and literary writings of figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Philip Freneau, and Charles Brockden Brown, Goudie argues that we attend to the shadowy pres- ence of the West Indian Creole in the formation of the early cultures of the United States. He...

.... Eric Wertheimer’s Imagined Empires explores the U.S. American appropria- tions of Peru’s and Mexico’s pre-Columbian past in Philip Freneau’s ‘‘The RisingGlory of America’’ (1771), Joel Barlow’s Vision of Columbus (1787...

... was translated into English and was in print throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. La Rochefoucauld influenced numerous US intellectuals: Benjamin Franklin’s “Sayings of Poor Richard” includes material he found in Maxims , and Philip Freneau is known to have owned an annotated copy (see Primer...

.... Eric Wertheimer’s Imagined Empires explores the U.S. American appropria- tions of Peru’s and Mexico’s pre-Columbian past in Philip Freneau’s ‘‘The RisingGlory of America’’ (1771), Joel Barlow’s Vision of Columbus (1787...

.... Eric Wertheimer’s Imagined Empires explores the U.S. American appropria- tions of Peru’s and Mexico’s pre-Columbian past in Philip Freneau’s ‘‘The RisingGlory of America’’ (1771), Joel Barlow’s Vision of Columbus (1787...