Panel Introduction: Learned And Sociable Manuscript Circulation

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 that "prose writing has been of great Use to me in the Course of my Life, and was a principal Means of my Advancement." Consistent with this claim, the modern literary study of Franklin overwhelmingly focuses on his prose, beginning with the teenaged satirical essays he published in the New England Courant under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood" and continuing all the way to the above referenced Autobiography, a text that was only printed posthumously but which is now Franklin's most widely anthologized work.

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Publication
Ramsey, C.T. (2019). Panel Introduction: Learned and Sociable Manuscript Circulation. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 48, 51-56. doi:10.1353/sec.2019.0004. Publisher version of record available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/749549
Language: English
Date: 2019
Keywords
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, satire, Eighteenth Century

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