Becoming Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Science, Manuscript Circulation, And "Anti-Authorship" In Print

ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Colin Ramsey Ph.D., Associate Professor (Creator)
Institution
Appalachian State University (ASU )
Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/

Abstract: Early in his Autobiography Benjamin Franklin remarks, “Prose writing has been of great Use to me in the Course of my Life, and was a principal Means of my Advancement.” The statement has both literal and figurative dimensions: much of Franklin’s wealth derived from his success as a printer, and he wrote a significant amount of the content for some of the most lucrative products of his own press, such as the Poor Richard almanacs and the newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette.

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Publication
Ramsey, CT. (2020). "Becoming Dr. Franklin: Benjamin Franklin's Science, Manuscript Circulation, And 'Anti-Authorship' In Print," in After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures, by Rachael Scarborough King. ISBN# 9780813943497, Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press. 2020. Publisher version of record available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2523427
Language: English
Date: 2020
Keywords
Benjamin Franklin, manuscripts, 18th century

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