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Benjamin Franklin / editor, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Lynch, Jack (John T.), editor.
Series:
Critical insights.
Critical insights
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Criticism and interpretation.
Franklin, Benjamin.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 320 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2010.
Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2010]
Summary:
This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Benjamin Franklin. A chronology of Franklin's life, a complete list of Franklin's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.
Contents:
On Benjamin Franklin / Jack Lynch
Biography of Benjamin Franklin / Clark Davis
The Paris review perspective / Bradley Bazzle
Benjamin Franklin: a cultural context / Neil Heims
Benjamin Franklin: the critical reception / Gurdip Panesar
Franklin as father: didactic discourse in the Autobiography / Maura Grace Harrington
Ben Franklin and the lost generation: the self-made man in Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wright / Matthew J. Bolton
Medical electricity and madness in the eighteenth century: the legacies of Benjamin Franklin and Jan Ingenhousz / Sherry Ann Beaudreau, Stanley Finger
Franklin and the revolutionary body / Betsy Erkkila
Feeling or fooling in Benjamin Franklin's "The Elysian fields" / A. Owen Aldridge
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the credibility of personality / Jennifer Jordan Baker
Death effects: revisiting the conceit of Franklin's Memoir / Jennifer T. Kennedy
Two texts told twice: Poor Richard, Pastor Yorick, and the case of the word's return / Christina Lupton
The moral reform of a scurrilous press / Ralph Frasca.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Other Format:
Print version: Benjamin Franklin.
ISBN:
9781587656415
1587656418
OCLC:
719371248

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