TY - JOUR AU1 - Rust, Marion AB - marion rust special review section Early Americanist Textual Scholarship (Post-)Revolutionary Papers In this section, we continue our occasional series assessing critical editions and other primary-­ ource texts of potential use to students, gens eral readers, and professional scholars alike. In this installment, we focus on recently published papers by Revolutionary-­ra public intellectuals John Adams, John Jay, James Madison, and George Washington. From the insufficiency of the Articles of Confederation to the valuation of horses, and from the intricacies of the Jay Treaty to the perceived threat of the Barbary States, these papers address concerns of continuing and even renewed relevance to contemporary scholarship, each in a characteristically distinct voice. The authors in question often wrote to (and occasionally about) each other, which makes the opportunity to discuss the volumes as a whole particularly compelling. The Selected Papers of John Jay, volume 4, 1785–1788 Edited by elizabeth m. nuxoll , mary a. y. gallagher , robb k. haberman , and jennifer e. steenshorne Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015 807 pp. The more we learn about John Jay, the harder it is to understand his comparative obscurity among the American founders. Even scholars tend to overlook his accomplishments and TI - Early Americanist Textual Scholarship: (Post-)Revolutionary Papers JF - Early American Literature DA - 2017-10-31 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/early-americanist-textual-scholarship-post-revolutionary-papers-V8kkdKOgla SP - 749 EP - 749 VL - 52 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -