Benjamin Franklin / editor, Jack Lynch.

Other author Lynch, Jack (John T.)
Format Book
Publication InfoPasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2010.
Descriptionvii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical insights
Critical insights. ^A1030970
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009026435
ISBN9781587656408 (alk. paper)
ISBN158765640X (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS752 .B46 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold