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American autobiography: the prophetic mode / [by] G. Thomas Couser
1979, First Edition. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #390945
ISBN: 0870232630
Physical description: vi, 222 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index. Contents: Introduction: Prophetic autobiography in America -- Piety and prophecy in Puritan spiritual autobiography -- John Woolman: a prophet among prophets -- Deism and prophecy: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography -- Frederick Douglass: abolitionism and prophecy -- Henry David Thoreau: retreat and pilgrimage -- Walt Whitman: vision and revision -- Henry Adams: heretic and prophet -- Two prophetic architects: Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright -- Gertrude Stein: the making of a prophet -- Three contemporaries: Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, and Robert Pirsig -- Epilogue: Prophetic autobiography and prophetic behavior.
Subjects: Autobiography
Biography (as a literary form) Autobiography. Biography as a literary form
United States Biography
United States Biography.
Autobiographical prose in English American writers to date.
Price: €12.95