Literary Hangover

Grace (@GraceJackson) and Alex (@Alecks_Guns) join Matt once again to discuss John Milton as a polemicist over John Milton as a poet. Milton's family background. Charles Deodati. Anti-Popery; the Gunpowder Plot, The Fatal Vespers. Virginity. The Trip to Italy. The English civil war and censorship/openness. Epic Poet tradition. Divorce Tracts. Areopagitica. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (ie Yes, We Should Actually Execute the King). Eikonoklastes (ie No, God Is Not Mad We Killed the King). The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a New Commonwealth (ie I Can't Believe We Are Going To Do Monarchy Again). References: Full Text [https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html] of Areopagitica. OpenYale Milton Lectures Areopagitica episode. [https://youtu.be/i7zq31I1wEE] Bernstein, Eduard. 2000. Cromwell and Communism: Socialism and Democracy in the Great English revolution. Nottingham: Spokesman. Hill, Christopher. 1978. Milton and the English Revolution. New York: Viking Press. Milton, John, and David Loewenstein. 2013. John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons. McDowell, Nicholas. 2020. Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton. Princeton University Press.

Alex, Grace, and Matt discuss The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by John Filson [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/909/909-h/909-h.htm], the seminal text in the creation of the Daniel Boone myth of the American hunter. Who underwrote Boone's expeditions? This bas relief [https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/conflict-daniel-boone-and-indians-1773-relief-sculpture] of Boone and why the US state would memorialize him as an "indian killer." Also this is Lord Dunmore [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore#/media/File:Sir_Joshua_Reynolds_-_John_Murray,_4th_Earl_of_Dunmore_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg]. Intro song: Daniel Boone by Pixies Morgan, Robert. 2008. Boone: a biography Faragher, John Mack. 1992. Daniel Boone: the life and legend of an American pioneer. Slotkin, Richard. 2006. Regeneration through violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600-1860. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Matt goes solo to finish off the first Byrd diary with the year 1712. Also, Michael Shermer's disgusting views on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. Buzzfeed article [https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement] on Michael Shermer (see Jefferson comments here [https://twitter.com/MerkinMuffley5/status/1448320144862765062?s=20]) Brown, Kathleen M. 2012. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press Hill, Christopher. 2021. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution. Penguin Books. Pettigrew, William A. 2016. Freedom's debt: the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752.

Get episodes a couple weeks early @ patreon.com/literaryhangover Hey everyone! Before we get to Boone, Matt is going to finish William Byrd II's first diary, this time the year 1711. The Tuscarora War, to be viewed as both an indian war *and* a slave rebellion, looms large as does the assassination of Byrd's father-in-law/Governor in Antigua, Colonel Daniel Parke. Sources NC BOOKWATCH: David LaVere: The Tuscarora War https://www.pbs.org/video/david-lavere-the-tuscarora-war-oifrkt/ [https://www.pbs.org/video/david-lavere-the-tuscarora-war-oifrkt/] The Michael Eure Show - Tri-Racial Identity of Tuscarora & Other Native Americans (12/17/20) https://youtu.be/fTge5-us_BU [https://youtu.be/fTge5-us_BU] The Michael Eure Show - Tri-Racial Identity of Tuscarora & Other Native Americans - Part 2 (1/14/21) https://youtu.be/_0KOxlu-6Xk [https://youtu.be/_0KOxlu-6Xk] Linebaugh, Peter. 2003. The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century. London: Verso. Apologies for the crispy audio, tried my best to cancel out vacuum noise from the neighbors.

Alex, Grace, and Matt return with year 1710 in the diary of tobacco plantation master William Byrd II, a year marked by spooky mystical dreams, increasing attempts at escape from slaves, and Whig vs Tory political battle. Sources The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712, ed. Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling (Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1941 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z8in0Prhqd4xUfGz_bfKgi3UvroEXTI4C43zkU1K4nc/edit?usp=sharing]) Linebaugh, Peter. 2006. The London hanged: crime and civil society in the eighteenth century. London: Verso.