Writing in the new nation : prose print and politics in the early United States David Brainerd Jonathan Edwards Prophet in bearskins Immanence versus representation Writing and self division in Cre§vecoeurs Farmer Literary embodiment of revolutionary conditions European rage for ruins American natural history Bartrams 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 Social science and the Indian Lewis and Clark expedition Journal versus history Language and captivity Sensitive frontiersman Savage frontiersman Wildness and democracy Wild man in the margin