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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But the fact is that they could not have " thought ” of it ; the word itself and the
concept as I have defined it were not available to Franklin before his death in
1790 and were not readily available to Jefferson before he wrote his narrative in
1821 .
But the fact is that they could not have " thought ” of it ; the word itself and the
concept as I have defined it were not available to Franklin before his death in
1790 and were not readily available to Jefferson before he wrote his narrative in
1821 .
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A thought struck me that it would be a noble thing if I could have such a carriage
without the expense of keeping a horse . . . . I soon thought that there might be a
force procured by Steam . ” When a friend later shows Fitch the 1759 edition of ...
A thought struck me that it would be a noble thing if I could have such a carriage
without the expense of keeping a horse . . . . I soon thought that there might be a
force procured by Steam . ” When a friend later shows Fitch the 1759 edition of ...
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Rather than continue mimetically to be impressed by bad habits ( others ' as well
as his / her own ) , the criminal should in solitude be forced to face , as in a mirror
, his / her own thoughts , or more hopefully ( Rush thought ) to face the “ Spirit of ...
Rather than continue mimetically to be impressed by bad habits ( others ' as well
as his / her own ) , the criminal should in solitude be forced to face , as in a mirror
, his / her own thoughts , or more hopefully ( Rush thought ) to face the “ Spirit of ...
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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
المحتوى
SelfBiography | 3 |
Travels through Life | 74 |
Ethan Allen and the Republican Self | 93 |
حقوق النشر | |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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| العنوان | After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-revolutionary America, 1780-1830 Becoming Modern: New Nineteent Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies Becoming modern |
| المؤلف | Stephen Carl Arch |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية |
| الناشر | University Press of New England, 2001 |
| أصلي من | جامعة ميتشيغان |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 7 كانون الثاني (يناير) 2010 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 1584651326, 9781584651321 |
| عدد الصفحات | 241 من الصفحات |
| تصدير الاقتباس | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |