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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... discussion of the emer- gence of autobiography . So do many others . But choosing primary ma- terials based on the ... discuss in the chapters that follow . Recovery is never wholesale ; it is always made in the context of an argument ...
... discussion of the emer- gence of autobiography . So do many others . But choosing primary ma- terials based on the ... discuss in the chapters that follow . Recovery is never wholesale ; it is always made in the context of an argument ...
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... discussion as " just " discourse , all equally significant . It is not all equally significant . Given the focus of my study , I take " better " to include , loosely , these aspects of the narratives I discuss : an awareness of the dif ...
... discussion as " just " discourse , all equally significant . It is not all equally significant . Given the focus of my study , I take " better " to include , loosely , these aspects of the narratives I discuss : an awareness of the dif ...
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... discussion of the institution of slavery to his recog- nition that man is by nature wretched , his principles " poisoned in their most essential parts " ( 173-174 ) . James concludes by asking whether he , having realized the true ...
... discussion of the institution of slavery to his recog- nition that man is by nature wretched , his principles " poisoned in their most essential parts " ( 173-174 ) . James concludes by asking whether he , having realized the true ...
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Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
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