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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 8: American political writing, 1760-1789 (search)
assage of the coercive acts, and the assembling by a Congress to consider plans of united resistance, stirred anew the fires of literary controversy. In May, 1774, the same month that saw the arrival of Gage and the British troops at Boston, Josiah Quincy published at that place his Observations on the Act of Parliament, commonly called the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on Civil Society and standing Armies. Quincy was a brilliant young lawyer, who, in company with John Adams, had chivalrousQuincy was a brilliant young lawyer, who, in company with John Adams, had chivalrously defended the British soldiers indicted for participation in the Boston Massacre, in 1770. A competent critic Tyler, Literary History of the American Revolution, I, 272 note. has suggested that the larger part of the pamphlet, dealing with civil society and standing armies, had been carefully prepared some time before, advantage being taken of the Port Act to publish the work with an expanded title. Quincy's pamphlet was shortly followed by James Wilson's Considerations on the nature and
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6: fiction I — Brown, Cooper. (search)
zabeth Linn of New York, and was thereafter an exemplary husband, father, and drudge, who produced pamphlets, large parts of his magazine, and practically the whole of the useful American Register (1807-11). The fame of his novels, of which he claimed to think little, became a legend, but new editions were not called for. In 1809 he was elected to honorary membership in the New York Historical Society, with such notables as Lindley Murray, Noah Webster, Benjamin Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, Josiah Quincy, and George Clinton. He died of consumption 19 February, 1810. In England he was well known for at least a generation. Blackwood's praised him with the fiery pen of John Neal; Scott borrowed from him the names of two characters in Guy Mannering; Godwin himself owed to Wieland a hint for Mandeville. In his native country Brown has stood, with occasional flickerings of interest, firmly fixed as a literary ancestor. There is little to note in American fiction between the close of Brow
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
ial Society of Massachusetts, 120 n. Puffendorf, 53 Purchas, 16 Putnam, George P., 251, 252, 253, 259 Putnam, Israel, 259 Pym, John, 21 Q Quarles, 153, 156, 157, 158 Quarterly review, the, 206, 249 Quesnay, 91 Quincy, Josiah, 135, 292 Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 125 n. Quodlibets, 4 R Rabelais, 116 Radcliffe, Mrs., 177, 235 Rainbow, the, 237 Rain dream, a, 271 Raleigh, Sir, Walter, 18, 154 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 361 n. Rambler, 85 Ramsay, DaviQuincy, Josiah, Jr., 125 n. Quodlibets, 4 R Rabelais, 116 Radcliffe, Mrs., 177, 235 Rainbow, the, 237 Rain dream, a, 271 Raleigh, Sir, Walter, 18, 154 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 361 n. Rambler, 85 Ramsay, David, 148 Randolph, 309 Rasselas, 284 Raynal, Abbe, 200 Records of the Boston stage, 226 n. Records of the Federal Convention, 147 n. Records of the New York stage, 221 n. Recruiting officer, I 17 Red Book, the, 240, 31 Red Jacket, 283 Red Rover, the, 300 Redburn, 321 Redskins, the, 305 Redwood, 310 Reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I, 80 Rehearsal, 114 Religion of nature, 94 Religious Courtship, 115 Remarkable Providences, 54 n. Rent,