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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 6 : Franklin (search)
Chapter 6: Franklin Stuart P. Sherman, Ph.D., Professor of English in the University of Illinois.
Franklin's training.
his early years.
his first writings.
Philadelphia.
London.
the Pennsylvania gazette.
his public activities.
experiments in electricity.
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Franklin in the Revolution.
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In a respectful and indeed laudatory notice of Franklin for The Edinburgh review of July, 1806, Lord Jeffrey employed the case of the uneducated tradesman of America to support his contention that regular education is unfavourable to vigour or originality of understanding.
Franklin attained his eminence, so runs the argument, without academical instruction, with only casual reading, without the benefit of association with men of letters, and in a society where there was no relish and no encouragement for literature.
This statement of Franklin's educational
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1 : travellers and observers, 1763 -1846 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5 : Bryant and the minor poets (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7 : fiction II --contemporaries of Cooper . (search)