The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History
The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History[1] is a 1793 account of the American Revolution written by Richard Snowden (1753–1825).[2][3][4] An example of "pseudo-biblicism", it imitates the language of the King James Version of the Bible.[5]
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| Author | Richard Snowden |
|---|---|
| Genre | Pseudo-biblicism |
| Published | 1793 |
Overview
Despite adopting a biblical style, the work is relatively devoid of religious material, like most pseudo-biblical works.[6] The work was aimed at schoolchildren, with Snowden writing that the style was chosen as the style "most suitable to the capacities of young people".[1] The work was published with verse numbers and uses English of the Jacobean Era, similar to that found in the King James Version of the Bible published in 1611.
In the work, modern place names are replaced with archaic-sounding names, e.g. France is called Gaul.[1]
References
- Shalev (2009, p. 202).
- Stevens, Henry (1862). Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America. Whittingham and Wilkins. p. 693. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Folsom, George; Dean, John Ward; Shea, John Gilmary; Henry Reed Stiles; Henry Barton Dawson (1858). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America. Henry B. Dawson. p. 212. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Norton, Anthony Banning (1862). A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive: Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes and Incidents of Men Connected with the County from Its First Settlement : Together with Complete Lists of the Senators, Representatives, Sheriffs [and Other Officers of the County...] : and Also a Sketch of Kenyon College, and Other Institutions of Learning and Religion Within the County. Mount Vernon, Ohio: Knox County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. p. 257. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Shalev (2014, p. 94).
- Shalev (2014, p. 95).
Sources
- Raphael, Ray (2014). Founding Myths: Stories that Hide Our Patriotic Past (Revised ed.). The New Press. ISBN 978-1595589491.
- Remer, Rosalind (1996). Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3337-9.
- Shalev, Eran (2009). Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. University of Virginia Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-8139-2839-5. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- Shalev, Eran (2014). American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300205909.
External links
- Read The American Revolution (1802 reprint) at the Internet Archive