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Title:

The Oldest revolutionary : essays on Benjamin Franklin / edited by J.A. Leo Lemay.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

1976

Description:

x, 165 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Criticism and interpretation.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.

Other Authors:

Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-2008.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

3. From Franklin to Emerson / The printer as a man of letters: Franklin and the symbolism of the third realm / William L. Hedges. Franklin as press agent in England / Bruce I. Granger -- Benjamin Franklin and the travel-writing tradition / Percy G. Adams -- 2. Franklin as writer: A portrait of the autobiographer as an old artificer / P.M. Zall -- From sound believer to practical preparationist: some Puritan harmonics in Franklin's Autobiography / David L. Parker -- Franklin's Poor Richard's almanacs: "the humblest of his labors" / Cameron C. Nickels -- The text, rhetorical strategies, and themes of "The speech of Miss Polly Baker" / J.A. Leo Lemay -- 3. Franklin in retrospect: Franklin's sanity and the man behind the masks / John Griffith -- From Franklin to Emerson / William L. Hedges.

ISBN:

9780812277074
0812277074

LCCN:

75041618

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

JAAX771 -- Faith Baptist Bible College - John L. Patten Library (Ankeny)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)