The negation of the past and the creation of American radicalism.

RADICALISM; HISTORY; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)

Discusses the history of early modern and Reformation radicalism in the United States. Difference from early Christian radicalism; Radicalism as the foundation of anglophone American culture; Reformation radicalism as a temporal radicalism marked as distinct by its uses of the past; Depiction in Puritan writing; Concomitant hatred and fear of the future; Structure of radical temporality.