LEADER 03588oam 2200481 450 001 9910131263503321 005 20230422033442.0 010 $a1572330120 (ebook) 010 $z9781572330122 (paperback) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000412480 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44612 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000412480 100 $a20191103c1998uuuu uu | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeclarations of independency in Eighteenth-Century American autobiography /$fSusan Clair Imbarrato 210 $cNewfound Press$d1998 210 1$aKnoxville :$cNewfound Press,$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (171 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 08$aPrint version: 9781572330122 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrom self-examination to autobiography -- Declaring the self in the spiritual sphere : Elizabeth Ashbridge and Jonathan Edwards -- Declaring the self in the social sphere : Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist -- Declaring the self in the political sphere : Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 330 $aIn this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puritan journal and diary to the self-inventive modes of eighteenth-century writings, which in turn anticipate the more romantic voices of nineteenth-century American literature. She focuses especially on the ways in which first-person narrative displayed an ever-stronger awareness of its own subjectivity. The eighteenth century, she notes, remained closer in temper to its Puritan communal foundations than to its Romantic progeny, but there emerged, nevertheless, a sense of the individual voice that anticipated the democratic celebration of the self. Through acts of self-examination, this study shows, self-construction became possible.In tracing this development, the author focuses on six writers in three literary genres. She begins with the spiritual autobiographies of Jonathan Edwards and Elizabeth Ashbridge and then considers the travel narratives of Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist. She concludes with an examination of political autobiography as exemplified in the writings of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. These authors, Imbarrato finds, were invigorated by their choices in a social-political climate that revered the individual in proper relationship to the republic. Their writings expressed a revolutionary spirit that was neither cynical nor despairing but one that evinced a shared conviction about the bond between self and community. 606 $aSelf in literature 606 $aAmerican prose literature$y18th century 606 $aAutobiography 606 $aBiography as a literary form 610 $aSelf in literature 610 $aAutobiography 610 $aBiography as a literary form 615 0$aSelf in literature. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature 615 0$aAutobiography. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form 676 $a808/.06692 700 $aImbarrato$b Susan Clair$0803420 801 0$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910131263503321 996 $aDeclarations of Independency in Eighteenth-Century American Autobiography$91804662 997 $aUNINA