The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early AmericaUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 25 févr. 2009 - 280 pages The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more—to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. While Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, this first full biography moves beyond his experience in the Old Dominion to examine his inner life, his experience in the early American backcountry, his love affair with Elizabeth Beatty, and his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
A Presbyterian Conversion | 33 |
Ambition | 58 |
Rural Enlightenment | 83 |
AVirginia Sojourn | 106 |
Revolution | 126 |
The Call of God | 156 |
Duty | 180 |
Conclusion | 209 |
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