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Papers by Zach Hutchins

Studies in Travel Writing, 2013

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 2010

... 0–0 ZACH HUTCHINS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of... more ... 0–0 ZACH HUTCHINS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews ... Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews During the early seventeenth century, Epiphanius is one of the minor church fathers cited most ...

This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the natio... more This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel Melville points toward miscegenation as the solution to problems of ethnic conflict festering since the Civil War, the key to rebuilding a nation torn apart by the economic exploitation and lingering racism of Reconstruction. Miscegenation is an ideal Melville celebrated somewhat naively in his earlier, prophetic fiction, but Clarel is Melville’s most sustained narrative commentary on race published after Benito Cereno and reflects a more pragmatic assessment of racial realities and possibilities in the United States.

Scholars treating early American travel writing, like those working on literatures from other pla... more Scholars treating early American travel writing, like those working on literatures from other places and periods, have focused on the travel book to the exclusion of more widely read, if somewhat mundane, forms of travel writing, such as the brief, corporately authored accounts of travel found in every eighteenth-century colonial newspaper. Reading these banal sections of Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette foregrounds the creative roles of readers rather than the viewpoint of a singular narrator. The widespread consumption of periodicals suggests that colonists consumed travel writing primarily in newspapers, whose format and content cultivated the readerly authority theorised by Roland Barthes.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

Books by Zach Hutchins

The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together es... more The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on the political origins and legacy of the Stamp Act, this volume illuminates the social and cultural impact of a legislative crisis that would end in revolution. Importantly, these essays question the traditional nationalist narrative of Stamp Act scholarship, offering a variety of counter identities and perspectives. Community without Consent recovers the stories of individuals often ignored or overlooked in existing scholarship, including women, Native Americans, and enslaved African Americans, by drawing on sources unavailable to or unexamined by earlier researchers.

Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inven... more Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and social movements of colonial North America. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. Be it public nudity of Freemasonry, Zachary Hutchins convincingly shows how a shared wish to bring paradise into the pragmatic details of colonial living had a profound effect on early New England life and its substantial culture of letters.

Spanning two centuries and surveying the works of major British and American thinkers from James Harrington and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that irrevocably altered the theology, literature, and culture of colonial New England--and, eventually, the new republic.

Studies in Travel Writing, 2013

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 2010

... 0–0 ZACH HUTCHINS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of... more ... 0–0 ZACH HUTCHINS The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews ... Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews During the early seventeenth century, Epiphanius is one of the minor church fathers cited most ...

This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the natio... more This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel Melville points toward miscegenation as the solution to problems of ethnic conflict festering since the Civil War, the key to rebuilding a nation torn apart by the economic exploitation and lingering racism of Reconstruction. Miscegenation is an ideal Melville celebrated somewhat naively in his earlier, prophetic fiction, but Clarel is Melville’s most sustained narrative commentary on race published after Benito Cereno and reflects a more pragmatic assessment of racial realities and possibilities in the United States.

Scholars treating early American travel writing, like those working on literatures from other pla... more Scholars treating early American travel writing, like those working on literatures from other places and periods, have focused on the travel book to the exclusion of more widely read, if somewhat mundane, forms of travel writing, such as the brief, corporately authored accounts of travel found in every eighteenth-century colonial newspaper. Reading these banal sections of Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette foregrounds the creative roles of readers rather than the viewpoint of a singular narrator. The widespread consumption of periodicals suggests that colonists consumed travel writing primarily in newspapers, whose format and content cultivated the readerly authority theorised by Roland Barthes.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together es... more The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has largely focused on the political origins and legacy of the Stamp Act, this volume illuminates the social and cultural impact of a legislative crisis that would end in revolution. Importantly, these essays question the traditional nationalist narrative of Stamp Act scholarship, offering a variety of counter identities and perspectives. Community without Consent recovers the stories of individuals often ignored or overlooked in existing scholarship, including women, Native Americans, and enslaved African Americans, by drawing on sources unavailable to or unexamined by earlier researchers.

Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inven... more Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and social movements of colonial North America. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. Be it public nudity of Freemasonry, Zachary Hutchins convincingly shows how a shared wish to bring paradise into the pragmatic details of colonial living had a profound effect on early New England life and its substantial culture of letters.

Spanning two centuries and surveying the works of major British and American thinkers from James Harrington and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that irrevocably altered the theology, literature, and culture of colonial New England--and, eventually, the new republic.