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The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History

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The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History
Title page of volume II
AuthorRichard Snowden
GenrePseudo-biblicism
Published1793

The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History[1] is a 1793 account of the American Revolution written by Richard Snowden (1753–1825).[2][3][4] An example of "pseudo-biblicism", it imitates the language of the King James Version of the Bible.[5]

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Despite adopting a biblical style, the work is relatively devoid of religious material, like most pseudo-biblical works.[6] The work was aimed at schoolchildren, with Snowden writing that the style was chosen as the style "most suitable to the capacities of young people".[1] The work was published with verse numbers and uses English of the Jacobean Era, similar to that found in the King James Version of the Bible published in 1611.

In the work, modern place names are replaced with archaic-sounding names, e.g. France is called Gaul.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Shalev (2009, p. 202).
  2. ^ Stevens, Henry (1862). Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America. Whittingham and Wilkins. p. 693. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  3. ^ Folsom, George; Dean, John Ward; Shea, John Gilmary; Henry Reed Stiles; Henry Barton Dawson (1858). The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America. Henry B. Dawson. p. 212. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  4. ^ Norton, Anthony Banning (1862). A History of Knox County, Ohio, from 1779 to 1862 Inclusive: Comprising Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes and Incidents of Men Connected with the County from Its First Settlement : Together with Complete Lists of the Senators, Representatives, Sheriffs [and Other Officers of the County...] : and Also a Sketch of Kenyon College, and Other Institutions of Learning and Religion Within the County. Mount Vernon, Ohio: Knox County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. p. 257. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  5. ^ Shalev (2014, p. 94).
  6. ^ Shalev (2014, p. 95).

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