After Franklin
The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America, 1780-1830
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3373734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Walker Howe (corresponding author), Stephen Carl Arch |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 530 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3491757 |
| OpenAlex | W1987665037 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Although much has been written about Benjamin Franklin s Autobiography, other writers of what Stephen Arch calls self-biographies in post-revolutionary America have received scant scholarly attention. This rich variety of texts dramatically shows the complex nature of 19th-century concepts of Arguing that autobiography is a modern invention, Arch shows its emergence in the older, conservative self-biographies of Alexander Graydon, Benjamin Rush, and Ethan Allen and in the newer, more progressive, and even radical self-biographies of K. White, Elizabeth Fisher, Stephen Burroughs, and John Fitch. Describing the evolution of a concept as elastic as the self is not easy, but Arch offers a unique and imaginative study of the emergence of a specifically modern American identity
Art history · Biography · Political science · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Canadian Identity and History · History
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2019 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |