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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... literary history , but always because they anticipate the romantics : Ethan Allen , for example , creates a " wild ... literary " in- dependence " ( 125 ) . Here , again , the literature of the Revolution and the early national period is ...
... literary history , but always because they anticipate the romantics : Ethan Allen , for example , creates a " wild ... literary " in- dependence " ( 125 ) . Here , again , the literature of the Revolution and the early national period is ...
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... literature becomes then and there conscious of crossing a great spiri- tual chasm of moving from one world of ideas and sentiments to a world of ideas and sentiments quite other and very different " ( The Literary History of the ...
... literature becomes then and there conscious of crossing a great spiri- tual chasm of moving from one world of ideas and sentiments to a world of ideas and sentiments quite other and very different " ( The Literary History of the ...
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... literature , " but those years " produced no literature of note , " being " from the standpoint of literary cre- ation , the feeblest generation in American history " ( 263 ) . Finally , he asserted , the years from 1815 to 1870 brought ...
... literature , " but those years " produced no literature of note , " being " from the standpoint of literary cre- ation , the feeblest generation in American history " ( 263 ) . Finally , he asserted , the years from 1815 to 1870 brought ...
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Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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