Peter Porcupine in America: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England

By William Cobbett

Peter Porcupine was the pseudonym for the Englishman William Cobbett, the most widely read pamphleteer and journalist in the early American republic. In this book David A. Wilson brings together seven of Cobbett's major American pamphlets with extracts from his newspaper writing and provides an introduction that locates him in the political and social context of his time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801428394
• ISBN13: 9780801428395
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.