Focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author examines the factors that have shaped the American character and culture
Feminist thought was advanced through works of protest like Charlotte Bronte's Shirley (1849) and novels by George Eliot, who also broached subjects like the secret ballot and expanded suffrage in her work (Felix Holt, 1866).
DialoguesofJohn Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805–1813 (San Marino, 1966), 112; Vernon L. Parrington, ed.: The Connecticut Wits (NewYork, 1926),xiii. 39Wood: Creation of theAmerican Republic, 517–18, 524, 562, 595.
Here is a religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a yearning for integration and acceptance ...
Here is a religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a yearning for integration and acceptance ...