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