Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority 1750-1800

By Jay Fliegelman

Book Overview

The author traces a constellation of intimately related ideas - about the nature of parental authority and filial rights, of moral obligation of Scripture, of the growth of the mind and the nature of historical progress - from their most important English and continental expressions in a variety of literary and theological texts, to their transmission, reception and application in Revolutionary America and in the early national period of American culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521317266
• ISBN13: 9780521317269
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"