After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830University Press of New England, 2001 - 241 من الصفحات 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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... British who cap- tured him and for Allen himself in captivity . He was finally exchanged for a British colonel in May 1778. Throughout his narrative of these two- plus years , Allen takes great care to describe the cruel treatment he ...
... British who cap- tured him and for Allen himself in captivity . He was finally exchanged for a British colonel in May 1778. Throughout his narrative of these two- plus years , Allen takes great care to describe the cruel treatment he ...
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... British council ” and “ perpe- trated " in America by " monster [ s ] " like William Howe , Joshua Loring , and John ... British prison system as an “ inquisition , ” that the binary system at work in his narrative will be American ...
... British council ” and “ perpe- trated " in America by " monster [ s ] " like William Howe , Joshua Loring , and John ... British prison system as an “ inquisition , ” that the binary system at work in his narrative will be American ...
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... British subjects ( see Bailyn 1967 , 232-234 ) . British soldiers are not the enemy because they are British ; they are the enemy because they ( some of them , at least ) seek to subjugate their fellow countrymen , their political and ...
... British subjects ( see Bailyn 1967 , 232-234 ) . British soldiers are not the enemy because they are British ; they are the enemy because they ( some of them , at least ) seek to subjugate their fellow countrymen , their political and ...
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Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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