Benjamin Franklin - Lynch, Jack (John T.) (Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2010)
On Benjamin Franklin / Jack Lynch -- Biography of Benjamin Franklin / Clark Davis -- The Paris review perspective / Bradley Bazzle -- Benjamin Franklin: a cultural context / Neil Heims -- Benjamin Franklin: the critical reception / Gurdip Panesar -- Franklin as father: didactic discourse in the Autobiography / Maura Grace Harrington -- Ben Franklin and the lost generation: the self-made man in Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wright / Matthew J. Bolton -- Medical electricity and madness in the eighteenth century: the legacies of Benjamin Franklin and Jan Ingenhousz / Sherry Ann Beaudreau, Stanley Finger -- Franklin and the revolutionary body / Betsy Erkkila -- Feeling or fooling in Benjamin Franklin's "The Elysian fields" / A. Owen Aldridge -- Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the credibility of personality / Jennifer Jordan Baker -- Death effects: revisiting the conceit of Franklin's Memoir / Jennifer T. Kennedy -- Two texts told twice: Poor Richard, Pastor Yorick, and the case of the word's return / Christina Lupton -- The moral reform of a scurrilous press / Ralph Frasca.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Criticism and interpretation