Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 130)

xii, 240pp. In laminated soft card covers (covers are clean, bright and unblemished). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A combination of literary criticism and political history which explores responses to the rejection of the monarchy in the American revolutionary era. Downes’ analysis considers the Declaration of Independence, Franklin’s autobiography, and the works of America’s first significant literary figures such as Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irvine and James Fenimore Cooper.