Prodigals and Pilgrims - The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Ideological Inheritance: 1. Educational theory and moral independence; 2. The transmission of ideology and the bestsellers of 1775; 3. The familial politics of the Fortunate Fall; Part II. Forms of Filial Freedom: 4. The debt of nature reconsidered; 5. Affectionate unions and the new voluntarism; 6. Filial freedom and American Protestantism; Part III. The Character of the National Family: 7. George Washington and the reconstituted family; 8. The sealing of the garden, Or the world well lost; Notes; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jay Fliegelman, Fliegelman Jay, Fliegelman Jay
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.02.1985
• EAN: 9780521317269
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31726-9
• Seiten: 340
• Serie: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general