Writing in the new nation : prose, print, and politics in the early United States /
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[1991]
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Table of Contents:
- David Brainerd
- Jonathan Edwards
- Prophet in bearskins
- Immanence versus representation
- Writing and self-division in Crèvecoeur's Farmer
- Literary embodiment of revolutionary conditions
- European rage for ruins
- American natural history
- Bartram's Travels
- Ordering the exotic
- Botanizing and republicanism
- Identity and duplicity
- Stephen Burroughs and confidence
- Charlotte Temple and real property
- Arthur Mervyn and personal property
- Benjamin Franklin and urban experience
- Autobiography, secrecy, and books
- Print culture and republican ideology
- Adams, Jefferson, Rush
- Declaration of Independence and personality
- Franklin and representative autobiography
- Rousseau, Emerson, and the return of the immanent
- Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight
- Continuity despite revolution
- Wieland
- Irving, Cooper, and literary conservatism
- Social science and the Indian
- Lewis and Clark expedition
- Journal versus history
- Language and captivity
- Sensitive frontiersman
- Savage frontiersman
- Wildness and democracy
- Wild man in the margin