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Home as Found (Paperback)
James Fenimore Cooper; Introduction by Stephen Carl Arch; Notes by Stephen Carl Arch; Text written by Stephen Carl Arch
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R982
Discovery Miles 9 820
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Home as Found (Hardcover)
James Fenimore Cooper; Introduction by Stephen Carl Arch; Notes by Stephen Carl Arch; Text written by Stephen Carl Arch
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R2,249
Discovery Miles 22 490
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Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in
1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands
and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish
colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already
established themselves in the colonies. Journal of a Lady of
Quality is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to
a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and
social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political
atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl
Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Charles McLean Andrews (1863-1943) was a professor of American
history at Yale University. He and his wife, Evangeline Walker
Andrews, also edited Jonathan Dickinson's Journal.
Although much has been written about Benjamin Franklin's
Autobiography, other writers of what Stephen Arch calls
"self-biographies" in post-revolutionary America have received
scant scholarly attention. This rich variety of texts dramatically
shows the complex nature of 19th-century concepts of identity.
Arguing that "autobiography" is a modern invention, Arch shows its
emergence in the older, conservative self-biographies of Alexander
Graydon, Benjamin Rush, and Ethan Allen and in the newer, more
progressive, and even radical self-biographies of K. White,
Elizabeth Fisher, Stephen Burroughs, and John Fitch. Describing the
evolution of a concept as elastic as "the self" is not easy, but
Arch offers a unique and imaginative study of the emergence of a
specifically modern American identity.
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