Thomas Paine has been celebrated for his role in persuading the American colonists to revolt against Britain and declare their independence. At the same time, however, scholars have generally dismissed his writings as propaganda. This book demonstrates that Paine was a skilled and sophisticated writer and thinker who transformed political literature in the late eighteenth century by creating a new literature of politics that bridged political philosophy and the everyday, common-sensical knowledge of ordinary people. The impact of this new political language would be remarkable as it energized a mass public to participate in the arena of politics, an arena from which they had been excluded.

Introduction 1
1 Inventing an American Public: The Pennsylvania Magazine and Revolutionary American Political Discourse 22
2 ould the Wolf Bleat Like the Lamb: Paine Critique of the Early American Public Sphere 49
3 Writing Revolutionary History 86
4 The Science of Revolution: Technological Metaphors and Scientific Methodology in Rights of Man and The Age of Reason 114
5 trong Friends and Violent Enemies: The Historical Construction of Thomas Paine through the Nineteenth Century 149
Epilogue: Paine and Nineteenth-Century American Literary History

Edward Larkin is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Richmond. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1998. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture on American studies and literature at Tallinn Pedagogical University in Tallinn, Estonia, during the 2004-05 academic year. 

Larkin is the editor of a new edition of Common Sense (Broadview Press, 2004) and has published numerous articles in Early American Literature and Arizona Quarterly.

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