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After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America

After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America

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This book describes the development of autobiography as a distinct genre of literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the United States. It analyzes important print and manuscript autobiographies like Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Alexander Graydon's Memoirs of a Life.

ISBN

9781584651147

Publication Date

2001

Publisher

University Press of New England

City

Hanover, NH

Keywords

autobiography, memoir, Post-Revolutionary, genre, American literature

Disciplines

American Literature | American Studies

After Franklin: The Emergence of Autobiography in Post-Revolutionary America

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