Covenant and Republic : Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. The new Ebenezer: republican virtue, the puritan fathers, and early national history-writing; 2. Catharine Sedgwick's 'Recital' of the Pequot War; 3. Refashioning the Republic: gender, ideology, and the politics of virtue in Hobomok and Hope Leslie; 4. The Hive of America: James Fenimore Cooper's The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish and the History of King Philip's War; 5. Witch-hunting and the politics of reason; Notes; Index.