This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only
to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural
expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in
victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to
enablement, expressed in the perpetration of heroic, courageous,
skillful, and powerful actions of assertion and dominance. In order
to illustrate this thesis, it provides a comprehensive analysis of
literary representations of the American War of Independence from
1775, the beginning of the war, up until roughly 1860, when the
Civil War marked a decisive historical turning point. As the first
national war, it has an unquestionably exemplary status for the
development of American conceptions of war. The in-depth study of
exemplary texts from a variety of genres and by authors like Thomas
Paine, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine
Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, and Herman Melville, demonstrates
that the overall character of Revolutionary War literature presents
the war as a forum in which collective and individual agency is
expressed, defended, and cultivated. It uses the military
environment in order to teach the values of discipline and
self-subordination to a communal good, which are perceived as basic
principles of a Republican virtue to guide the actions of the
autonomous individual in a popular democracy.
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