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Rereading
the Revolution
The Turn-of-the-Century
American Revolutionary War Novel
Benjamin S. Lawson
Popular Press
Approximately fifty historical novels
dealing with the American Revolution were published in the United
States from 1896 to 1906. Benjamin S. Lawson critically examines
the narrative strategies employed in these works and the ways
in which fiction is made to serve the purpose of vivifying national
history.
Writing within the conventions of the historical romance, these
authors created plots that reflect the enveloping concerns of
the War for Independence, such as the young American woman who
often must choose between suitors on opposite sides in the wider
conflict.
Lawson concludes that these works reassured readers of the worth
of an Anglo-American heritage. They were escapist fantasies to
the degree that they failed to confront contemporary realities
of crisis and change: the New Immigration, urbanization and industrialization,
labor strife, the plight of the poor, and agitation on behalf
of women and ethnic minorities.
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2000
LC: 00-025233 PS
248 pp. 6 x 9
3 b/w illus.
ISBN-10: 0-87972-817-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-817-5
Cloth $51.95 t
ISBN-10: 0-87972-818-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-818-2 Paper $18.95 t
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