Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800Cambridge University Press, 1982 - 328 pages The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture. |
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Contents
EDUCATIONAL THEORY AND MORAL INDEPENDENCE | 9 |
THE LOCKEAN PARADIGM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 12 |
ROUSSEAU AND THE NEW AUTHORITY | 29 |
THE TRANSMISSION OF IDEOLOGY AND THE BESTSELLERS OF 1775 | 36 |
THE NEW PATERNITY AND THE BESTSELLERS OF 1775 | 38 |
THE PEDAGOGUES | 40 |
THE MORALISTS | 51 |
THE FAMILIAL POLITICS OF THE FORTUNATE FALL | 67 |
LIBERTY AND SONSHIP | 174 |
THE NECESSITY OF REBIRTH | 183 |
THE TRIUMPH OF NURTURE | 188 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL FAMILY | 195 |
GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE RECONSTITUTED FAMILY | 197 |
THE POWER OF EXAMPLE | 202 |
THE CHARACTER OF THE FATHER | 208 |
THE DEBT OF HONOR AND THE GREATER GOOD | 214 |
CLARISSA IN AMERICA | 83 |
FORMS OF FILIAL FREEDOM | 93 |
FRANKLIN AND THE NEW ORDER OF THE AGES | 106 |
PRODIGALS AND PARENTAL TYRANTS | 113 |
AFFECTIONATE UNIONS AND THE NEW VOLUNTARISM | 123 |
FROM PASSIVE TO ACTIVE DISOBEDIENCE | 144 |
FILIAL FREEDOM AND AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM | 155 |
THE ASSAULT ON JEHOVAH | 156 |
HUMAN ACCOUNTABILITY AND THE MORAL CHARACTER OF GOD | 164 |
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