Benjamin Franklin /

Benjamin Franklin / editor, Jack Lynch. - Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010. - vii, 320 p. ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Benjamin Franklin / Biography of Benjamin Franklin / Paris review perspective / Benjamin Franklin: a cultural context / Benjamin Franklin: the critical reception / Franklin as father: didactic discourse in the Autobiography / Ben Franklin and the lost generation: the self-made man in Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wright / Medical electricity and madness in the eighteenth century: the legacies of Benjamin Franklin and Jan Ingenhousz / Franklin and the revolutionary body / Feeling or fooling in Benjamin Franklin's "The Elysian fields" / Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the credibility of personality / Death effects: revisiting the conceit of Franklin's Memoir / Two texts told twice: Poor Richard, Pastor Yorick, and the case of the word's return / moral reform of a scurrilous press / Jack Lynch -- Clark Davis -- Bradley Bazzle -- Neil Heims -- Gurdip Panesar -- Maura Grace Harrington -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Sherry Ann Beaudreau, Stanley Finger -- Betsy Erkkila -- A. Owen Aldridge -- Jennifer Jordan Baker -- Jennifer T. Kennedy -- Christina Lupton -- Ralph Frasca. The The

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 --Criticism and interpretation.

PS 752 / .B46 2010