Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
civil war, Milton, American Revolution, political literature
College
Humanities
Department
English
Abstract
Traditionally, scholars have labeled the American Revolution as a “creation,” but this project seeks to examine it as an extension and eventual reinvention of an English national identity established a century before the war. My goal was to find what influence the writers of the English Civil War had upon the leaders of the American Revolution, showing the extent to which the American colonists borrowed ideology from their English forbearers.
Recommended Citation
Coplen, Megan Roeling and Siegfried, Dr. Brandie
(2013)
"Two Civil Wars of Words: Milton as an American Revolutionary,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:
Iss.
1, Article 734.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/734