After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830Although 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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In a sense , the tension merely suggests the depth of Rush ' s early Calvinism :
solitude may be a way of recovering our Adamic senses , but God has
nevertheless enjoined us to “ delight in Society ” ( Travels , 46 ) . We must live in
the world ...
In a sense , the tension merely suggests the depth of Rush ' s early Calvinism :
solitude may be a way of recovering our Adamic senses , but God has
nevertheless enjoined us to “ delight in Society ” ( Travels , 46 ) . We must live in
the world ...
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What merit or virtue or honor entitles him to more than the two brothers whose “
internal principle of virtue " stimulated them to heroism ? For that matter , why is
Allen entitled to have ambition , while the two brothers ' obscurity suggests that ...
What merit or virtue or honor entitles him to more than the two brothers whose “
internal principle of virtue " stimulated them to heroism ? For that matter , why is
Allen entitled to have ambition , while the two brothers ' obscurity suggests that ...
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The swiftness with which she is jailed and , later , convicted suggests women ' s
relative helplessness before the law in 1810 , while her half brother ' s claim that
she forged the deed suggests that , for Fisher , what is at stake in her narrative is
...
The swiftness with which she is jailed and , later , convicted suggests women ' s
relative helplessness before the law in 1810 , while her half brother ' s claim that
she forged the deed suggests that , for Fisher , what is at stake in her narrative is
...
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SelfBiography | 3 |
Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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| Título | After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830 Becoming Modern: New Nineteent Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies Becoming modern |
| Autor | Stephen Carl Arch |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | University Press of New England, 2001 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 7 Ene. 2010 |
| ISBN | 1584651326, 9781584651321 |
| Largo | 241 páginas |
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