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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It is to receive an impression or call up a memory ( experience ) and ,
simultaneously , to test that impression or idea against others ' impressions or
ideas ( experiment ) . It is the progress of our minds ” ( 79 ) that Locke sets out to
describe , and ...
It is to receive an impression or call up a memory ( experience ) and ,
simultaneously , to test that impression or idea against others ' impressions or
ideas ( experiment ) . It is the progress of our minds ” ( 79 ) that Locke sets out to
describe , and ...
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For the most part , Rush and his ideas like the interdependence of mind and body
have been ignored by literary scholars ( though they have , in recent years , been
probed by social historians like Michael Meranze ) . Critics like Jay Fliegelman ...
For the most part , Rush and his ideas like the interdependence of mind and body
have been ignored by literary scholars ( though they have , in recent years , been
probed by social historians like Michael Meranze ) . Critics like Jay Fliegelman ...
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The weight of Dr . Cullen ' s name depressed [ him ] every time [ he ] ventured to
admit an idea that militated against his ... it a constant endless succession of
decompositions and new arrangements of facts and ideas upon medical subjects
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The weight of Dr . Cullen ' s name depressed [ him ] every time [ he ] ventured to
admit an idea that militated against his ... it a constant endless succession of
decompositions and new arrangements of facts and ideas upon medical subjects
...
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After Franklin: the emergence of autobiography in post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830
معاينة المستخدمين - Not Available - Book VerdictArch's (Authorizing the Past; English, Michigan State Univ.) well-supported thesis is that before the 1810s in North America, people who wrote about themselves, Benjamin Franklin for example, were not ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
After Franklin: the emergence of autobiography in post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830
معاينة المستخدمين - Not Available - Book VerdictArch's (Authorizing the Past; English, Michigan State Univ.) well-supported thesis is that before the 1810s in North America, people who wrote about themselves, Benjamin Franklin for example, were not ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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SelfBiography | 3 |
Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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