Selections from the author's A history of American literature (1878) and The literary history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 (1897).
Bibliography
"Bibliographical note": p. 351.
Contents
Virginia : The first writer -- New England : Its nature and its people -- New England : Theology and religion -- New England : Topics of popular discussion -- Literature in the middle colonies -- Maryland, Virginia, and the South -- The Stamp Act and political discussion -- The Loyalists and their literature -- Satire and the Revolutionary controversy -- Thomas Paine and Common sense -- Thomas Jefferson and the great Declaration -- John Dickinson -- Two Apostles of quietness and good will -- Franklin in the literature of the Revolution.
