The way of improvement leads home
Subtitle: Philip Vickers Fithian and the rural Enlightenment
By: John Fea.
Series: Early American studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780812241099
Subjects: Fithian, Philip Vickers, -- 1747-1776; Diarists -- Virginia -- Biography; Tutors and tutoring -- Virginia -- Biography; Presbyterians -- New Jersey -- Biography; Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century; Enlightenment -- United States; American diaries -- History and criticism; Virginia -- Social life and customs -- To 1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Chaplains; United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.