Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Benjamin Franklin’s library
- 2 The Art of Virtue
- 3 Franklin’s satiric vein
- 4 Franklin in the republic of letters
- 5 Benjamin Franklin’s natural philosophy
- 6 Franklin and the Enlightenment
- 7 Franklin and the question of religion
- 8 The pragmatist in Franklin
- 9 Franklin on national character and the Great Seal of the United States
- 10 Protestant ethic or conspicuous consumption? Benjamin Franklin and the Gilded Age
- 11 Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream
- 12 Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, then and now
- Further reading
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2009
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Benjamin Franklin’s library
- 2 The Art of Virtue
- 3 Franklin’s satiric vein
- 4 Franklin in the republic of letters
- 5 Benjamin Franklin’s natural philosophy
- 6 Franklin and the Enlightenment
- 7 Franklin and the question of religion
- 8 The pragmatist in Franklin
- 9 Franklin on national character and the Great Seal of the United States
- 10 Protestant ethic or conspicuous consumption? Benjamin Franklin and the Gilded Age
- 11 Benjamin Franklin and the American Dream
- 12 Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, then and now
- Further reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin , pp. 177 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009