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Author Fliegelman, Jay.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.80973 F621P    Check Shelf
Description vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Part 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 -- Part II: Forms of Filial Freedom. 4. The debt of nature reconsidered -- 5. Affectionate unions and the new voluntarism -- 6. Filial freedom and American Protestantism -- Part 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and history.
Parent and child in literature.
Families -- 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.
ISBN 052123719X
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