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ISBN: 9780393935615
Year: 2012
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Description:
The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that
includes the long-missing and recently identified "Wagon Letters."
Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's
life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most
influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical
Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the
Autobiography within the larger history of the life-writing
genre as well as within the history of celebrity. The text is
accompanied by new and expanded explanatory annotations and by a
map, an illustration, and six facsimiles.
"Contexts" presents a broader view of Franklin's life with a
journal entry from a 1726 voyage, correspondence, a Poor
Richard piece on ambition and fame, Franklin's views on
self-improvement, and his last will (and codicil).
"Criticism" draws on a wealth of material that reflects both the
wide range of Franklin's achievements and the global impact of his
life and memoirs. New international voices in "Contemporary
Opinions" include Immanuel Kant, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte
de Mirabeau, José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, and
José Francisco Correia da Serra. "Nineteenth-Century Opinions"
includes Humphry Davy on Franklin's discovery of electricity as
well as Empress Sh?ken of Japan's Franklin-inspired poem.
Finally, "Modern Opinions" reprints important pieces: I. B. Cohen
on Franklin and the Autobiography's importance to science; Michael
Warner's theoretical interpretation of the practices of writing and
printing and what they tell us about Franklin; and Peter
Stallybrass's insightful and engaging history-o
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393935615
Year: 2012
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 480
Description:
The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that
includes the long-missing and recently identified "Wagon Letters."
Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's
life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most
influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical
Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the
Autobiography within the larger history of the life-writing
genre as well as within the history of celebrity. The text is
accompanied by new and expanded explanatory annotations and by a
map, an illustration, and six facsimiles.
"Contexts" presents a broader view of Franklin's life with a
journal entry from a 1726 voyage, correspondence, a Poor
Richard piece on ambition and fame, Franklin's views on
self-improvement, and his last will (and codicil).
"Criticism" draws on a wealth of material that reflects both the
wide range of Franklin's achievements and the global impact of his
life and memoirs. New international voices in "Contemporary
Opinions" include Immanuel Kant, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte
de Mirabeau, José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, and
José Francisco Correia da Serra. "Nineteenth-Century Opinions"
includes Humphry Davy on Franklin's discovery of electricity as
well as Empress Sh?ken of Japan's Franklin-inspired poem.
Finally, "Modern Opinions" reprints important pieces: I. B. Cohen
on Franklin and the Autobiography's importance to science; Michael
Warner's theoretical interpretation of the practices of writing and
printing and what they tell us about Franklin; and Peter
Stallybrass's insightful and engaging history-o