After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America, 1780-1830 - Couverture souple

Arch, Stephen Carl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1584651326 ISBN 13 : 9781584651321

Editeur : University Press of New England, 2001

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

STEPHEN CARL ARCH, Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University, is author of Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of New England
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1584651326
• ISBN 13: 9781584651321
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 255
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