Title: Prodigals and pilgrims
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.
Subjects: Literature and history, Parent and child in literature, Family, Intellectual life, History and criticism, American literature, Modern Literature, Books and reading, Psychological aspects of Patriarchy, Psychological aspects, Patriarchy, History, Histoire, Littérature et histoire, Dans la littérature, Patriarchaat (sociologie), Livres et lecture, Amerikaans, Families, Vie intellectuelle, Parents et enfants dans la littérature, Patriarcat (sociologie), Patriarchat, Parents et enfants, Littérature, Aspect psychologique, Revolutionary period (United States), Thèmes, motifs, Letterkunde, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Amerikaanse Vrijheidsoorlog, Famille, United states, intellectual life, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783
Places: United States
Time periods: 1783-1850, 18th century, Revolutionary period, 1775-1783