Creating an unconventional portrait of the life and thought of
an Enlightenment historian and scientist, this study focuses upon
Jeremy Belknap's letters, journals, and essays, which provide a
clear sense of how a dialogue with the past can yield an
appreciation of life and acceptance of self. Author of the three
volume "History of New Hampshire" and the two volume "American
Biography," Jeremy Belknap (1744-1798) was the American Plutarch
because he used the past to learn more about his own life and the
lives of others. He experienced the past vicariously through his
imagination and experientially through his journeys throughout New
England in search of clues to the explanation of the natural and
human past of America.
The book is built around Belknap's engaging correspondence with
his friend Ebenezer Hazard, as well as Belknap's own travel
journals of his expeditions to upstate New York and throughout New
Hampshire. His journey to the White Mountains of New Hampshire in
1784 was the climax of his active inquiry into the past. Far from a
dry, historiographical account, this study provides a fluid and
descriptive narrative of Belknap, his journeys, and his times. This
is a unique portrayal of human nature in general and 18th century
society in particular.
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