Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / Daniel Walker Howe.

Author/creator	Howe, Daniel Walker
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Description	342 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)	National characteristics, American. Identity (Psychology)--United States. United States--Intellectual life --1783-1865.

Series	Studies in cultural history Studies in cultural history. ^A237015
Contents	Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the problem of human nature -- The American founders and the Scottish enlightenment -- The political psychology of The Federalist -- The emerging ideal of self-improvement -- Self-made men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass -- Shaping the selves of others -- The platonic quest in New England -- Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood -- The constructed self against the state.
Local note	Little-303132--305131008738$
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-331) and index.
LCCN	96034982
ISBN	0674165551 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E169.1 .H76 1997	✔ Available	Place Hold