Imaginary friendship in the American Revolution: John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

"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...

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Hauptverfasser: Nicolson, Colin 1961- (VerfasserIn), Edwards, Owen Dudley (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:Perspectives on early America
Perspectives on early America
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2019)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 224 pages)
ISBN:9781315196565
1315196565

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