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【アメリカ独自による文化創造】

Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln.(Studies in Cultural History)　hardcover　352 p.

Howe, Daniel Walker. 　著

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価格 \-

発行年月	1997年01月
出版社／提供元	Harvard University Press
出版国	アメリカ合衆国
言語	英語
媒体	冊子
装丁	hardcover
ページ数／巻数	352 p.
ジャンル	洋書／人文科学／歴史学／アメリカ史
ISBN	9780674165557
商品コード	0209705629
個人件名	Edwards, J.
本の性格	学術書
書評掲載誌	Choice
商品URL	https://kw.maruzen.co.jp/ims/itemDetail.html?itmCd=0209705629

内容

What does it mean to be an American? This book explores the earlyAmerican quest to construct the "self". Self-improvement and to "makesomething of oneself" was an idea from Colonial to Victorian times, this bookexamines the basic pursuit of identity and the motivations behind them.

Part I Virtue and passion in the American Enlightenment: BenjaminFranklin, Jonathan Edwards and the problem of human nature; the Americanfounders and the Scottish Enlightenment; the political psychology of "TheFederalist". Part II Constructing character in Antebellum America: theemerging ideal of self-improvement; self-made men - Abraham Lincoln andFrederick Douglass; shaping the selves of others. Part III The cultivation ofthe self among the New England Romantics: the platonic quest in New England;Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood; the constructed self against thestate.