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

List of contents

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jay Fliegelman, Fliegelman Jay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.1985
• EAN: 9780521317269
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31726-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Paperback Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies