Prodigals and pilgrims
Subtitle: the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800
By: Jay Fliegelman.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and history -- United States.; Parent and child in literature.; Family -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; Patriarchy -- Psychological aspects.; American literature -- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.; Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 18th century.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Description: The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.