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Philip Gould is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University. His research focuses on early American literature and culture, transatlantic theory, and the political implications of antebellum American literature. Gould has authored several books, including "Covenant Republic: Historical Romance Politics Puritanism" (Cambridge University Press, 1996), "Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Harvard University Press, 2003), and "Writing Rebellion: Loyalists, Literature, and Politics in British America" (Oxford University Press, 2013). His most recent book is "War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North" (Oxford, 2024). He is currently working on an editorial project related to Frederick Douglass. Gould’s scholarly work encompasses topics in American historical fiction, antislavery writing during the eighteenth century, and Loyalist perspectives on the American Revolution. His teaching includes courses on eighteenth-century Anglo-American literature, nineteenth-century American literature, the early American novel, and literature related to the American Revolution and Civil War.
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