Prodigals and Pilgrims

The American Revolution against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

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Beskrivning

The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:1985-02-22
Mått:152 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521317269

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'It is one of the few works on the American Revolutionary era that recaptures some of the sweeping force of what happened at the end of the eighteenth century.' New York Review of Books

Innehållsförteckning

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.