The Oldest Revolutionary by J. A. Leo Lemay

Author:J. A. Leo Lemay [Lemay, J. A. Leo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Biography & Memoir, Historical
ISBN: 9781512817560
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published: 2018-03-23T04:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Charles L. Sanford, ed., Benjamin Franklin and the American National Character, Readings in American Civilization (Boston: D. C. Heath, 1955), p. v.

2. Irvin Ehrenpreis, “Personae,” in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies: Essays in Honor of Alan Dugald McKillop, ed. Carroll Camden (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), p. 34.

3. The best considerations of Poor Richard and the almanacs in essentially literary terms are John J. Ross, “The Character of Poor Richard: Its Source and Alteration.” PMLA, 55 (September 1940), 785–94; Bruce I. Granger, Benjamin Franklin: An American Man of Letters (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1964), pp. 51–76; J. A. Leo Lemay, “Benjamin Franklin,” in Major Writers of Early American Literature, ed. Everett Emerson (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1972), pp. 211–17.

4. All quotations from the almanacs are taken from The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree et al., which is being published by Yale University Press. Subsequent quotations will be identified by year in the text.

5. See Carroll Camden, “Elizabethan Almanacs and Prognostications,” Library, 4th Ser., 12 (1934), 83–108, 194–207; F. P. Wilson, “Some English Mock-Prognostications,” Library, 4th Ser., 19 (1939), 6–43.

6. Robert H. Newcomb, “The Sources of Benjamin Franklin’s Sayings of Poor Richard,” Diss., University of Maryland, 1957, is an exhaustive study of the sources of the contents of the almanacs.

7. Granger, pp. 73–74.

8. Newcomb, pp. 174–75.

9. Edward J. Gallagher, “The Rhetorical Strategy of Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth,’ ” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 6 (1973), 475–85, is the most complete analysis of the structure of the preface. See also Lemay, pp. 215–17.

10. Letter to Cadwallader Colden, Sept. 29, 1748, Papers, III, 318.

11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree et al. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964), p. 164.

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