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Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture / edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
- American prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Language and culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Language and culture.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773833-8
- 1-280-44261-1
- 0-19-534487-1
- 1-4237-3452-1
- OCLC:
- 191935768
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