Imaginary Friendship in the American Revolution

John Adams and Jonathan Sewall

Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards

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Routledge
30 September 2020

Historiography; History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; American War of Independence

Series: Perspectives on Early America

Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other’s progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams’s presumption of Sewall’s authorship of the Loyalist tracts Massachusettensis influenced his own magnum opus, Novanglus. The mystery is not why Adams presumed Sewall was his adversary in 1775 but why he was impelled to answer him.

By: Colin Nicolson, Owen Dudley Edwards
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780367664350
ISBN 10: 0367664356
Series: Perspectives on Early America
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue: History 1. Friendship 2. John and Jonathan 3. Politics 4. The King’s Law 5. Imagining Revolution 6. Massachusettensis and Novanglus 7. Debate 8. The British Question 9. Revolution. Epilogue: War and Reunion

Colin Nicolson is Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling. Owen Dudley Edwards is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh.