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- catalog abstract "No colonial figures so completely anticipated the shape of American culture - at once material and spiritual, piously secular and pragmatically sacred - as did Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. Commonly labeled "Puritan" and "Yankee" respectively, Edwards and Franklin evoke seemingly opposite ideals. Puritan values, embraced by Edwards and sustained in American "evangelicalism," focus on God, communal faith, and self-denial. Yankee attributes, espoused by Franklin and sustained in American liberal republicanism, coalesce around the trinity of hard work, independent virtue, and utilitarian self-happiness. For two and a half centuries these alternative emphases and orientations have coexisted in uneasy tension both individually and in American society at large. In contrast to traditional comparative studies, which portray Edwards and Franklin as mutually exclusive ideal types, this interdisciplinary collection of essays allows polemical contrasts to disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity. From these essays, written by distinguished historians and literary critics such as Ruth Bloch, Edwin S. Gaustad, Daniel Walker Howe, J.A. Leo Lemay, and David Levin, emerges a portrait of two men who shared a common concern with mind, character, and virtue that shaped a legacy that would define much of American character for generations to come.".
- catalog contributor b4413262.
- catalog contributor b4413263.
- catalog coverage "United States Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout -- Mind -- Religious Affections and Religious Affectations: Antinomianism and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Edwards and Franklin / William Breitenbach -- Enlightenment and Awakening in Edwards and Franklin / A. Owen Aldridge -- The Nature of True--and Useful--Virtue: From Edwards to Franklin / Edwin S. Gaustad -- "A Wall Between Them Up to Heaven": Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin / Elizabeth E. Dunn -- Franklin, Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature / Daniel Walker Howe -- Culture -- The Two Cultures in Eighteenth-Century America / Bruce Kuklick -- The Laughter of One: Sweetness and Light in Franklin and Edwards / Leonard I. Sweet -- Women, Love, and Virtue in the Thought of Edwards and Franklin / Ruth H. Bloch -- The Selling of the Self: From Franklin to Barnum / Michael Zuckerman -- Language -- Reason, Rhythm, and Style / David Levin -- Rhetorical Strategies in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Humanizing the Monster: Integral Self Versus Bodied Soul in the Personal Writings of Franklin and Edwards / R.C. De Prospo.".
- catalog description "No colonial figures so completely anticipated the shape of American culture - at once material and spiritual, piously secular and pragmatically sacred - as did Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin. Commonly labeled "Puritan" and "Yankee" respectively, Edwards and Franklin evoke seemingly opposite ideals. Puritan values, embraced by Edwards and sustained in American "evangelicalism," focus on God, communal faith, and self-denial. Yankee attributes, espoused by Franklin and sustained in American liberal republicanism, coalesce around the trinity of hard work, independent virtue, and utilitarian self-happiness. For two and a half centuries these alternative emphases and orientations have coexisted in uneasy tension both individually and in American society at large. In contrast to traditional comparative studies, which portray Edwards and Franklin as mutually exclusive ideal types, this interdisciplinary collection of essays allows polemical contrasts to disappear and Edwards and Franklin emerge as contrapuntal themes in a larger unity. From these essays, written by distinguished historians and literary critics such as Ruth Bloch, Edwin S. Gaustad, Daniel Walker Howe, J.A. Leo Lemay, and David Levin, emerges a portrait of two men who shared a common concern with mind, character, and virtue that shaped a legacy that would define much of American character for generations to come.".
- catalog extent "viii, 230 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "019507775X (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "810.9/001 20".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 1783-1850 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Language and culture United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS367 .B46 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout -- Mind -- Religious Affections and Religious Affectations: Antinomianism and Hypocrisy in the Writings of Edwards and Franklin / William Breitenbach -- Enlightenment and Awakening in Edwards and Franklin / A. Owen Aldridge -- The Nature of True--and Useful--Virtue: From Edwards to Franklin / Edwin S. Gaustad -- "A Wall Between Them Up to Heaven": Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin / Elizabeth E. Dunn -- Franklin, Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature / Daniel Walker Howe -- Culture -- The Two Cultures in Eighteenth-Century America / Bruce Kuklick -- The Laughter of One: Sweetness and Light in Franklin and Edwards / Leonard I. Sweet -- Women, Love, and Virtue in the Thought of Edwards and Franklin / Ruth H. Bloch -- The Selling of the Self: From Franklin to Barnum / Michael Zuckerman -- Language -- Reason, Rhythm, and Style / David Levin -- Rhetorical Strategies in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Narrative of the Late Massacres in Lancaster County / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Humanizing the Monster: Integral Self Versus Bodied Soul in the Personal Writings of Franklin and Edwards / R.C. De Prospo.".
- catalog title "Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the representation of American culture / edited by Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".