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Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture.
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of thecolonial perio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Franklin
- 10. 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.