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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Still , all three are conservative when it comes to selfhood ; each wants to “
conserve ” a conception of identity that restricts the self and self - formation to
known or socially inscribed or natural limits . Alexander Graydon , Benjamin
Rush , and ...
Still , all three are conservative when it comes to selfhood ; each wants to “
conserve ” a conception of identity that restricts the self and self - formation to
known or socially inscribed or natural limits . Alexander Graydon , Benjamin
Rush , and ...
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Eighteenth - century identity , particularly for the unlettered , was imagined in
terms of imitation and , for those who were ambitious , emulation . In cultures
based primarily on oral and visual education , imitation and emulation served as
the ...
Eighteenth - century identity , particularly for the unlettered , was imagined in
terms of imitation and , for those who were ambitious , emulation . In cultures
based primarily on oral and visual education , imitation and emulation served as
the ...
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Subject Female : Authorizing American Identity . " American Literary History 5 :
481 – 511 . Sobel , Mechal . 1997 . “ The Revolution in Selves : Black and White
Inner Aliens . " In Through a Glass Darkly : Reflections on Personal Identity in
Early ...
Subject Female : Authorizing American Identity . " American Literary History 5 :
481 – 511 . Sobel , Mechal . 1997 . “ The Revolution in Selves : Black and White
Inner Aliens . " In Through a Glass Darkly : Reflections on Personal Identity in
Early ...
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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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