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Benjamin Franklin / editor, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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