ABSTRACT
John Bull appears as a surprisingly unifying national figure within the context of war in Europe and political factionalism at home, coupled with religious disputes, plots and intrigues to find Anne an heir. He appears as a surprisingly unifying national figure within the context of war in Europe and political factionalism at home, coupled with religious disputes, plots and intrigues to find Anne an heir. The significance of the John Bull pamphlets is substantial. From the literary perspective they represent a high point in the genre of Augustan political satire. The American colonists were very well informed about English politics. Any eighteenth-century colonial gentleman with a presumption to education had read the classics, the French philosophers, the literature of the Glorious Revolution and the Tory wits. Although John Bull came to the American allegorists with a fixed set of traits, the intensity of their interpretation varied.
