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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... later " ( 272 ) . Seeing “ no Miltons in America in the late eighteenth century " ( 18 ) , Elliott asks Revolutionary writers to be romantic writers , speaking to us through the private symbolic imagina- tion in carefully revised and ...
... later " ( 272 ) . Seeing “ no Miltons in America in the late eighteenth century " ( 18 ) , Elliott asks Revolutionary writers to be romantic writers , speaking to us through the private symbolic imagina- tion in carefully revised and ...
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... later charac- ter in American literature puts it , minding the main chance . .. Elizabeth is involved in many of those transactions . She provides affidavits for her father's claim against the government after the Revolu- tion ...
... later charac- ter in American literature puts it , minding the main chance . .. Elizabeth is involved in many of those transactions . She provides affidavits for her father's claim against the government after the Revolu- tion ...
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... later , Fitch " sat off [ on ] a journey from home and ... never since found my way back " ( 45 ) . He was , he says , convinced that he and his wife " could not live happy together " ( 46 ) . Like K. White , he travels through the ...
... later , Fitch " sat off [ on ] a journey from home and ... never since found my way back " ( 45 ) . He was , he says , convinced that he and his wife " could not live happy together " ( 46 ) . Like K. White , he travels through the ...
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Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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