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Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / Daniel Walker Howe.

By: Howe, Daniel Walker
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in cultural history: Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997Description: 342 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674165551 (alk. paper)Subject(s): National characteristics, American | Identity (Psychology) -- United States | United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865DDC classification: 973 LOC classification: E169.1 | .H76 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-331) and index.
Contents:
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the problem of human nature -- The American founders and the Scottish enlightenment -- The political psychology of The Federalist -- The emerging ideal of self-improvement -- Self-made men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass -- Shaping the selves of others -- The platonic quest in New England -- Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood -- The constructed self against the state.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-331) and index.

Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the problem of human nature -- The American founders and the Scottish enlightenment -- The political psychology of The Federalist -- The emerging ideal of self-improvement -- Self-made men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass -- Shaping the selves of others -- The platonic quest in New England -- Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood -- The constructed self against the state.

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