Way of Improvement Leads Home - Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America

Informationen zum Autor John Fea is Associate Professor of History at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Klappentext In this first full biography of Philip Vickers Fithian, John Fea tells the story of how one young man sought to pursue the life of an eighteenth-century Presbyterian gentleman while continuing to yearn for the everyday passions that defined what it meant for him to be human. Zusammenfassung In this first full biography of Philip Vickers Fithian! John Fea tells the story of how one young man sought to pursue the life of an eighteenth-century Presbyterian gentleman while continuing to yearn for the everyday passions that defined what it meant for him to be human. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. A Cohansey Home Chapter 2. A Presbyterian Conversion Chapter 3. Ambition Chapter 4. Rural Enlightenment Chapter 5. A Virginia Sojourn Chapter 6. Revolution Chapter 7. The Call of God Chapter 8. Duty Chapter 9. Conclusion Appendix. A Note on the Fithian Diaries Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: John Fea
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2009
• EAN: 9780812220599
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2059-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1790 bis 1799 n. Chr., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)