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Prodigals and pilgrims: the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800

Fliegelman, Jay.

Year: 1982.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowlegements

Introduction

I The Ideological Inheritance

1 Educational theory and moral independence

2 The transmission of ideology and the bestsellers of 1775

3 The familial politics of the Fortunate Fall

II Forms of Filial Freedom

4 The debt of nature reconsidered

5 Affectionate unions and the new voluntarism

6 Filial freedom and American Protestantism

III The Character of the National Family

7 George Washington and the reconstituted family

8 The sealing of the garden, or the world well lost

Notes

Index

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Title:

Prodigals and pilgrims : the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800 Jay Fliegelman.

Author:

Fliegelman, Jay

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Prodigals and pilgrims : the American revolution against patriarchal authority, 1750-1800 Jay Fliegelman.
Fliegelman, Jay
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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Subject Headings:

• Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and history
• 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

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