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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A version of chapter 5 appeared as the introduction to my edition of Ethan Allen '
s Narrative of the Captivity of Colonel Ethan Allen ( 2000 ) . Many thanks to the
readers of the manuscript at the University Press of New England . Their
criticisms ...
A version of chapter 5 appeared as the introduction to my edition of Ethan Allen '
s Narrative of the Captivity of Colonel Ethan Allen ( 2000 ) . Many thanks to the
readers of the manuscript at the University Press of New England . Their
criticisms ...
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The urge in early national literary studies , as I pointed out in chapter 2 , has often
been to get to the midcentury United States as quickly as possible . I have been
reluctant in part because I have found so much material to interest me in the ...
The urge in early national literary studies , as I pointed out in chapter 2 , has often
been to get to the midcentury United States as quickly as possible . I have been
reluctant in part because I have found so much material to interest me in the ...
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... a fairly recent phenomenon . 10 . For example , Herbert Leibowitz moves from
a chapter on Franklin to chapters on Louis Sullivan and other modernists (
Fabricating Lives : Explorations in American Autobiography ( New York : Knopf ,
1989 ] ...
... a fairly recent phenomenon . 10 . For example , Herbert Leibowitz moves from
a chapter on Franklin to chapters on Louis Sullivan and other modernists (
Fabricating Lives : Explorations in American Autobiography ( New York : Knopf ,
1989 ] ...
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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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