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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783591003321

Titolo

Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-773833-8

1-280-44261-1

0-19-534487-1

1-4237-3452-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObergBarbara

StoutHarry S

Disciplina

810.9/001

Soggetti

American prose literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

American prose literature - History and criticism

Language and culture - United States - History - 18th century

National characteristics, American, in literature

United States Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; MIND; 2. Religious Affections and Religious Affectations: Antinomianism and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Edwards and Franklin; 3. Enlightenment and Awakening in Edwards and Franklin; 4. The Nature of True-and Useful-Virtue: From Edwards to Franklin; 5. ""A Wall Between Them Up to Heaven"": Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin; 6. Franklin, Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature; CULTURE; 7. The Two Cultures in Eighteenth-Century America; 8. The Laughter of One: Sweetness and Light in Franklin and Edwards

9. Women, Love, and Virtue in the Thought of Edwards and Franklin10. The Selling of the Self: From Franklin to Barnum; LANGUAGE; 11. Reason, Rhythm, and Style; 12. Rhetorical Strategies in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Narrative of the Late Massacres in



Lancaster County; 13. Humanizing the Monster: Integral Self Versus Bodied Soul in the Personal Writings of Franklin and Edwards; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This is an interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays which looks at aspects of the thought of Edwards and Franklin and considers their places in American culture.