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Volume : II, Issue : VIII, September - 2012 Benjamin Franklin – An Illuminated Autobiographer Ashalata Raman DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, typical of an Enlightenment man,
illustrates the common intellectual and existential climate of the age. To the vision of the
New World, still nebulous in the minds of many European contemporaries, Franklin, the
product and the maker of his age, responded with a perfectly articulated representation
of what America was like and what it meant to be an American at the time. As the
autobiography of one of the Founding Fathers of America, Franklin's memoir prefaces
the history of an autonomous and self-determining subject, characterized by
independence, authority, and reason, while picturing America's pre-Revolutionary era. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Ashalata Raman, (2012). Benjamin Franklin – An Illuminated Autobiographer. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VIII, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1333.pdf References : - Bailyn, Bernard. 1960. Education in the Forming of American Society: Needs and Opportunities. New York: Random House.
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