The unfinished life of Benjamin Franklin / Douglas Anderson.

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir--a model of the genre--in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson's study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Anderson, Douglas, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: accident and design
  • Great works and little anecdotes
  • Imposing forms
  • The scramble of life
  • Litera scripta manet
  • Some uses of cunning.