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The Significance of Literature after the Revolution
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Jennifer Regli US Cult History MWF 8-8:50 The Significance of Literature after the Revolution In the book Inheriting the Revolution, Jane Appleby is able to incorporate many different and diverse personal accounts of their newfound independence after the revolution. "Facing a dramatically different challenge from that of their parents, the men and women born between Independence and 1800... took on the self conscious task of elaborating the meaning of the United States Revolution. Their knowledge of it consisted of passed on tales rather than first hand experience, yet they gave the United States a natural culture replete with purposes, heroes, taboos, prescriptions, symbols, and celebrations" (Appleby, pg. 5). To write this book, Appleby used many different autobiographical and biographical accounts from such people as Ichabod Washburn, Harriet Newall, Samuel Mills, and more. Literature has become one of our most important forms of communication. We no longer rely on oral...
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