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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... course of Letters , provides no answers , only more questions . “ What , then , is life ? " he asks , rewriting his most famous question once again . At bot- tom , he decides , it is " self - preservation " ( 210 ) . James retreats west ...
... course of Letters , provides no answers , only more questions . “ What , then , is life ? " he asks , rewriting his most famous question once again . At bot- tom , he decides , it is " self - preservation " ( 210 ) . James retreats west ...
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... course , since he grounds his narrative in a world of tools and labor ( as well as nature ) . It suggests more immediately a class distinction : lower- and middle - class white men made the early argu- ments on behalf of “ original ” or ...
... course , since he grounds his narrative in a world of tools and labor ( as well as nature ) . It suggests more immediately a class distinction : lower- and middle - class white men made the early argu- ments on behalf of “ original ” or ...
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... course ( 126 ) her life as a woman has taken . She notes that some events in her story are so novel and so eccentric that readers might not accept them as true . Such " novel and eccentric " ( 123 ) scenes might cause some readers to ...
... course ( 126 ) her life as a woman has taken . She notes that some events in her story are so novel and so eccentric that readers might not accept them as true . Such " novel and eccentric " ( 123 ) scenes might cause some readers to ...
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Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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