Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture - Couverture rigide

 
9780195077759: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 019507775X ISBN 13 : 9780195077759
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

This is an interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays which look at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and consider the place of these two men in American culture. The essays have their origin in a conference held at Yale University, the home of the modern editions of the papers of both these 18th century American thinkers.

Franklin and Edwards are probably the two most studied colonial figures and have often been the subject of comparative exercises. In such studies, they have often been treated as having the characteristics of mutually exclusive ideal types and set into categories as different and opposed as `traditional' and `modern.' In the present volume, however, polemical contrasts disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is an interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays which look at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and consider the place of these two men in American culture. The essays have their origin in a conference held at Yale University, the home of the modern editions of the papers of both these 18th century American thinkers. Franklin and Edwards are probably the two most studied colonial figures and have often been the subject of comparative exercises. In such studies, they have often been treated as having the characteristics of mutually exclusive ideal types and set into categories as different and opposed as `traditional' and `modern.' In the present volume, however, polemical contrasts disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity.

Revue de presse

The cast of scholars is first rate ... The collection has a ready-made audience among scholars-specialists and generalists in American literature and thought. (Martha Banta, UCLA)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
019507775X
ISBN 13 
9780195077759
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Éditeur
Oberg Barbara B., Stout Harry S.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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