Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.
Contents
David Brainerd -- Jonathan Edwards -- Prophet in bearskins -- Immanence versus representation -- Writing and self-division in Crev̀ecoeur's Farmer -- Literary embodiment of revolutionary conditions -- European rage for ruins -- American natural history -- Bartram's Travels -- Ordering the exotic -- Botanizing and republicanism -- Identity and duplicity -- Stephen Burroughs and confidence -- Charlotte Temple and real property -- Arthur Mervyn and personal property -- Benjamin Franklin and urban experience -- Autobiography, secrecy, and books -- Print culture and republican ideology -- Adams, Jefferson, Rush -- Declaration of Independence and personality -- Franklin and representative autobiography -- Rousseau, Emerson, and the return of the immanent -- Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight.
