Prodigals and pilgrims : the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521237192, 9780521317269, 052123719X, 0521317266
7597888
Part I: The Ideological Inheritance. 1. Educational theory and moral independence
2. The transmission of ideology and the bestsellers of 1775
3. The familial politics of the Fortunate Fall
Part II: Forms of Filial Freedom. 4. The debt of nature reconsidered
5. Affectionate unions and the new voluntarism
6. Filial freedom and American Protestantism
Part III: The Character of the National Family. 7. George Washington and the reconstituted family
8. The sealing of the garden, Or the world well lost
English
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