The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820Harvard University Press, 1997 - 220 страница This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... early Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E ... early republican text is about this complete interpene- tration of language , belief , power , and points of view ...
... early Republic requires a basic act of mutual recognition between leaders and led . The vigor in a slogan like E ... early republican text is about this complete interpene- tration of language , belief , power , and points of view ...
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... republic on the edge of a vast and unformed new world . It is worth elaborating how metaphors of light respond so readily to early republican problems of perception . Metaphors , by definition , are tropes of transference in which an ...
... republic on the edge of a vast and unformed new world . It is worth elaborating how metaphors of light respond so readily to early republican problems of perception . Metaphors , by definition , are tropes of transference in which an ...
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... early Republic often resort to conventional images of light in coping with problems of perception and order . With characteristic optimism , Thomas Jefferson in 1813 sees education as the passing of light from one taper to another , and ...
... early Republic often resort to conventional images of light in coping with problems of perception and order . With characteristic optimism , Thomas Jefferson in 1813 sees education as the passing of light from one taper to another , and ...
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What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
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