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Author:

Couser, G. Thomas.

Title:

American autobiography : the prophetic mode / G. Thomas Couser.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

1979

Description:

vi, 222 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Autobiography.
United States--Biography.
Biography as a literary form.
Autobiographie.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
États-Unis--Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index.

Contents:

Epilogue: Prophetic autobiography and prophetic behavior. Piety and prophecy in Puritan spiritual autobiography -- John Woolman: a prophet among prophets -- Deism and prophecy: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography -- Frederick Douglass: abolitionism and prophecy -- Henry David Thoreau: retreat and pilgrimage -- Walt Whitman: vision and revision -- Henry Adams: heretic and prophet -- Two prophetic architects: Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright -- Gertrude Stein: the making of a prophet -- Three contemporaries: Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, and Robert Pirsig -- Epilogue: Prophetic autobiography and prophetic behavior.

ISBN:

9780870232633
0870232630

LCCN:

78011835

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

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

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

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

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

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)