After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830University Press of New England, 2001 - 241 páginas Although much has been written about Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, other writers of what Stephen Arch calls “self-biographies” in post-revolutionary America have received scant scholarly attention. This rich variety of texts dramatically shows the complex nature of 19th-century concepts of identity. Arguing that “autobiography” is a modern invention, Arch shows its emergence in the older, conservative self-biographies of Alexander Graydon, Benjamin Rush, and Ethan Allen and in the newer, more progressive, and even radical self-biographies of K. White, Elizabeth Fisher, Stephen Burroughs, and John Fitch. Describing the evolution of a concept as elastic as “the self” is not easy, but Arch offers a unique and imaginative study of the emergence of a specifically modern American identity. |
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... Character " of only his father : " He had a mechanical Genius , too , and on occasion was very handy in the Use of other Tradesmen's Tools . But his great Excel- lence lay in a sound Understanding , and solid Judgment in prudential ...
... Character " of only his father : " He had a mechanical Genius , too , and on occasion was very handy in the Use of other Tradesmen's Tools . But his great Excel- lence lay in a sound Understanding , and solid Judgment in prudential ...
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... character . He remarks near the end of volume one that scientific objec- tivity , feeling " indifferent towards an object " of investigation , prevents a person from gaining a “ true estimate " of that object . " We must feel interested ...
... character . He remarks near the end of volume one that scientific objec- tivity , feeling " indifferent towards an object " of investigation , prevents a person from gaining a “ true estimate " of that object . " We must feel interested ...
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... character looses its moorings in temporal and geographic space , circulating haphazardly within society as a site of social and cultural fears , " the most singular " character that could be imagined ( 263 ) . It is here , I would argue ...
... character looses its moorings in temporal and geographic space , circulating haphazardly within society as a site of social and cultural fears , " the most singular " character that could be imagined ( 263 ) . It is here , I would argue ...
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4 | 38 |
Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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Alexander Graydon Allen's Narrative American Literature American Revolution argue autobiography behavior Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Rush biography Boston British Burroughs Burroughs's Cambridge captivity Cathy Davidson character Charles Brockden Brown claims conception counterfeit course Crèvecoeur's critics culture discourse Early American eccentric eighteenth century emergence Emerson Ethan Allen example experience father Federalist fictional Fisher Fitch Fliegelman genre of autobiography Graydon's Memoirs Grimes human ideas identity imagines independent individual insists invention James James's Jefferson John Adams John Fitch language Letters liberty Library of America Literary History mind modern moral Nantucket Nantucket Island narrator nature nineteenth century novel original Oxford University Press P. T. Barnum Philadelphia political Princeton printed published readers remarks Reprint republican Revolutionary America romantic Rush's says self-biography selfhood sense sentimental singular social society steamboat Stephen Burroughs story tells texts Thomas Thoreau tion tradition Travels virtue White William women writing written wrote York