Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture / / edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout
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| Titolo: |
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture / / edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/001 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 18th century |
| Altri autori: |
ObergBarbara
StoutHarry S
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| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Previously issued in print: 1993. | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture |
| ISBN: | 0-19-773833-8 |
| 1-280-44261-1 | |
| 0-19-534487-1 | |
| 1-4237-3452-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819723903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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