Philip Gould is Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres at Brown University. He is the author of Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism and Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the 18th-Century Atlantic World.

"Writing the Rebellion leaves us with a vision of eighteenth-century print culture in British America as more labile and more literary than we'd realized, and with an expanded sense of why that matters." --Early American Literature

"...Philip Gould's scholarly and beautifully written monograph offers a new way to conceptualize their agency.... [A] deeply scholarly and critically acute study of loyalist writing...." --American Historical Review

"Writing the Rebellion presents a methodologically rich approach to Loyalist writings that have fallen through the cracks of national literary histories. Much more than a recovery effort, Gould's important book reveals the dynamic relation between literary forms and Revolutionary conflict and shows how Loyalist aesthetics continue to resonate in liberal political theory." --Sandra Gustafson, author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic

"Writing the Rebellion is not only a groundbreaking study of colonial American literary debates, but it also sets a new scholarly standard on Loyalist writing. Gould has produced the first major study of Loyalist writing to take the Loyalist position on its own terms as well as from opposing viewpoints. It's a lucid, richly documented study that will change how we read the literature of the American Revolution." --Leonard Tennenhouse, author of The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

"Writing the Rebellion refocuses attention on the losers of the American Revolution--and on the experience of loss itself. Gould's Loyalists dissented from critical categories we now invoke to evaluate American political literature. Severing virtue from politics, suspicious of the seductions of language, Loyalists did not believe there was an American 'public' in revolutionary America. By carefully recovering their intellectual world, Gould gives us a timely reminder of the history of a divided country." --Eric Slauter, author of The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

"Gould discusses the relationship between Britain and its North Atlantic colonies during the decades leading up to and including those colonists' Revolution..." -- American Literature