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A major work of recovery and analysis, Greene's engaging study of Revolutionary War veteran narratives offers fresh perspective on the soldier, the military, and the nation. Focusing on tensions between soldiers' military and civilian bodies in the narratives of Ethan Allen, Israel Potter, Deborah Sampson, and many other veteran writers, Greene shows how the veteran became a cultural nexus for imagining war in relation to American sovereignty.--Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies James Greene takes up the notoriously elusive concept of popular sovereignty and brings it to life via the lives and narratives of a fascinating array of Revolutionary-era soldiers. Drawing on a wide range of historical, literary and theoretical texts, Greene sheds light on the complex interplay of violence and vulnerability, self-determination and subordination, that constitutes the soldier's 'two bodies.'--Paul Downes, author of Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature This is a fascinating, incisive study about the paradoxes of popular sovereignty that underwrite eighteenth- and nineteenth-century veteran narratives. The care with which it has been researched and written distinguishes it as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the period's literary, military, and political history, and as a touching, respectful tribute to the service of U.S. veterans, past and present.--Siân Silyn Roberts, author of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861

This is a fascinating, incisive study about the paradoxes of popular sovereignty that underwrite eighteenth- and nineteenth-century veteran narratives. The care with which it has been researched and written distinguishes it as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the period's literary, military, and political history, and as a touching, respectful tribute to the service of U.S. veterans, past and present.--Sian Silyn Roberts, author of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861 A major work of recovery and analysis, Greene's engaging study of Revolutionary War veteran narratives offers fresh perspective on the soldier, the military, and the nation. Focusing on tensions between soldiers' military and civilian bodies in the narratives of Ethan Allen, Israel Potter, Deborah Sampson, and many other veteran writers, Greene shows how the veteran became a cultural nexus for imagining war in relation to American sovereignty.--Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies James Greene takes up the notoriously elusive concept of popular sovereignty and brings it to life via the lives and narratives of a fascinating array of Revolutionary-era soldiers. Drawing on a wide range of historical, literary and theoretical texts, Greene sheds light on the complex interplay of violence and vulnerability, self-determination and subordination, that constitutes the soldier's 'two bodies.'--Paul Downes, author of Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature

A major work of recovery and analysis, Greene's engaging study of Revolutionary War veteran narratives offers fresh perspective on the soldier, the military, and the nation. Focusing on tensions between soldiers' military and civilian bodies in the narratives of Ethan Allen, Israel Potter, Deborah Sampson, and many other veteran writers, Greene shows how the veteran became a cultural nexus for imagining war in relation to American sovereignty.--Robert S. Levine, author of Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies James Greene takes up the notoriously elusive concept of popular sovereignty and brings it to life via the lives and narratives of a fascinating array of Revolutionary-era soldiers. Drawing on a wide range of historical, literary and theoretical texts, Greene sheds light on the complex interplay of violence and vulnerability, self-determination and subordination, that constitutes the soldier's 'two bodies.'--Paul Downes, author of Democracy, Revolution and Monarchism in Early American Literature This is a fascinating, incisive study about the paradoxes of popular sovereignty that underwrite eighteenth- and nineteenth-century veteran narratives. The care with which it has been researched and written distinguishes it as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the period's literary, military, and political history, and as a touching, respectful tribute to the service of U.S. veterans, past and present.--Sian Silyn Roberts, author of Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790-1861

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James M. Greene is assistant professor of English at Indiana State University.

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