The University of North Carolina Press

256 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 5 illus., notes, index

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-3164-9

Published: March 2008

Paper

ISBN  978-0-8078-5853-0

Published: March 2008

Men of Letters in the Early Republic

Cultivating Forums of Citizenship

By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan

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About the Author

Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan is assistant professor of history at Arizona State University.

Reviews

"[A] treasure trove of remarkable insights. . . . Kaplan's brilliant work deserves wide readership for the way in which it reveals how various Federalists invented a version of citizenship predicated on social and cultural rather than poltical bonds."
--The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

"Will be valued for its imaginative and nuanced insights into post-Revolutionary literary culture."
--Journal of Southern History

"Forces us to move beyond a national framework and to foreground the local and regional networks at work in the post-Revolutionary era."
--Common-Place

"The best historical monograph on Shaftesburian literary communities in the post-Revolutionary period."
--Eighteenth-Century Studies

"A rich source of information for scholars of the early republic, gender, and American cultural production and print media."
--Journal of American History

"[A] thoughtful book."
--Bookforum