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Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards: And the Representation of American Culture

Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards: And the Representation of American Culture

Oberg, Barbara B.
Stout, Harry S.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismReligion General General United States History

ISBN10: 019507775X
ISBN13: 9780195077759
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 20 1993
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture. Probably the two most examined figures of the colonial period, they have often been the object of comparative studies. These characterizations usually portray them as mutually exclusive ideal types, thus placing them in categories as different and opposed as traditional and modern. In these essays--by such scholars as William Breitenbach, Edwin Gaustad, Elizabeth Dunn, and Ruth Bloch--polemical contrasts disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture is a valuable addition to scholarship on American literature and thought.

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