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prose, print, and politics in the early United States
David Brainerd -- Jonathan Edwards -- Prophet in bearskins -- Immanence versus representation -- Writing and self-division in Crev̀ecoeur's Farmer -- Literary embodiment of revolutionary conditions -- European rage for ruins -- American natural history -- Bartram's Travels -- Ordering the exotic -- Botanizing and republicanism -- Identity and duplicity -- Stephen Burroughs and confidence -- Charlotte Temple and real property -- Arthur Mervyn and personal property -- Benjamin Franklin and urban experience -- Autobiography, secrecy, and books -- Print culture and republican ideology -- Adams, Jefferson, Rush -- Declaration of Independence and personality -- Franklin and representative autobiography -- Rousseau, Emerson, and the return of the immanent.
Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight -- Continuity despite revolution -- Wieland -- Irving, Cooper, and Literary conservatism -- Captive language--Social science and the Indian -- The Lewis and Clark expedition -- Journal versus history -- Language and captivity -- Wild usages -- The sensitive frontiersman: Filson and Cooper -- The savage frontiersman: Brown and Bird -- Wilderness and democracy: Ethan Allen -- The wild man in the margin: Melville and Emerson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.