The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the Enlightenment reached middle- and lower-class colonial Americans prior to independence and revolution. Essays on morals and manners appearing in five periodicals published along the southern and mid-Atlantic coast between the years 1750 and 1775 were analyzed for markers of Enlightenment thought. These were isolated from a review of well-known social and intellectual histories of the period. An advertiser list and a subscription list provided documented readers for two of the five periodicals, which were then analyzed for income, occupation, and socio-economic status using demographic studies as well as an early taxables list of colonial Philadelphians. Enlightened ideas of ...
Periodical Publics investigates the twenty American magazines produced between 1783 to 1792. Using t...
Hardcover, 378 S.: 36,00 €Hardcover, 17x24The three essays and the collection of documents focus on ...
This dissertation examines the behavioral recommendations of courtship advice literature published i...
The periodical essay is the sole British literary genre to have emerged and declined within the chro...
Popular educational literature played an important role in the decades following the American Revolu...
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarc...
This dissertation investigates the various and occasionally competing streams of French culture gene...
The rise of refined behavior paralleled the expansion of colonial markets and consumer choice. Objec...
511 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.Since the beginning of the si...
As the United States of America approaches the 250 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independen...
The title of my dissertation alludes to Benjamin Franklin’s plan for moral perfection, a project enc...
Eighteenth-century England is marked by a resurgence in writing for the periodicals that were being ...
According to one of Americans most cherished myths, the best way to insure democratic self-reliance ...
The public discourse surrounding a variety of issues discussed in the American colonies in the first...
In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mo...
Periodical Publics investigates the twenty American magazines produced between 1783 to 1792. Using t...
Hardcover, 378 S.: 36,00 €Hardcover, 17x24The three essays and the collection of documents focus on ...
This dissertation examines the behavioral recommendations of courtship advice literature published i...
The periodical essay is the sole British literary genre to have emerged and declined within the chro...
Popular educational literature played an important role in the decades following the American Revolu...
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarc...
This dissertation investigates the various and occasionally competing streams of French culture gene...
The rise of refined behavior paralleled the expansion of colonial markets and consumer choice. Objec...
511 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982.Since the beginning of the si...
As the United States of America approaches the 250 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independen...
The title of my dissertation alludes to Benjamin Franklin’s plan for moral perfection, a project enc...
Eighteenth-century England is marked by a resurgence in writing for the periodicals that were being ...
According to one of Americans most cherished myths, the best way to insure democratic self-reliance ...
The public discourse surrounding a variety of issues discussed in the American colonies in the first...
In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mo...
Periodical Publics investigates the twenty American magazines produced between 1783 to 1792. Using t...
Hardcover, 378 S.: 36,00 €Hardcover, 17x24The three essays and the collection of documents focus on ...
This dissertation examines the behavioral recommendations of courtship advice literature published i...