Declarations of independency in Eighteenth-Century American autobiography / / Susan Clair Imbarrato.

In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puri...

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Place / Publishing House:Knoxville : : Newfound Press,, 1998
Year of Publication:1998
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (171 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • From self-examination to autobiography
  • Declaring the self in the spiritual sphere : Elizabeth Ashbridge and Jonathan Edwards
  • Declaring the self in the social sphere : Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth House Trist
  • Declaring the self in the political sphere : Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.