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Lydia Maria Child's The Rebels: Allegory and the Feminist Troping of American Literary History
Studies in American Fiction ( IF 0.1 ) Pub Date : 2017-01-01 , DOI: 10.1353/saf.2017.0007
Joseph J. Letter

James Otis, Jr., one of Boston’s early Revolutionary heroes, had been suffering from mental illness for more than a decade when he was struck by lightning and died in May of 1783. Otis had risen to prominence in the 1760s as the brilliant legal mind behind the colonial defense against British taxation, but his illness had forced him to retire before the outbreak of the war, and he slipped into relative obscurity as the other Founding Fathers of the American nation emerged. After his death, Otis’s private papers were lost. Yet, despite the dearth of materials, in 1823 William Tudor published a biography of Otis that attempted to reconstruct his life through the public documents that survived. As Tudor notes in the preface:

中文翻译:

莉迪亚·玛丽亚·柴尔德 (Lydia Maria Child) 的反叛者:美国文学史上的寓言和女权主义倾向

小詹姆斯·奥蒂斯 (James Otis, Jr.) 是波士顿早期革命英雄之一,在 1783 年 5 月被闪电击中并于 1783 年 5 月去世时,他已经患有精神疾病十多年。奥蒂斯在 1760 年代成为杰出的法律人才在殖民地防御英国税收的背后,但他的病迫使他在战争爆发前退休,随着美国其他开国元勋的出现,他相对默默无闻。在他死后,奥蒂斯的私人文件丢失了。然而,尽管材料匮乏,威廉·都铎在 1823 年出版了奥蒂斯的传记,试图通过幸存的公开文件重建他的生活。正如都铎在序言中指出的那样:
更新日期:2017-01-01
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