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• W28016857 abstract "DESPITE THEIR IDEOLOGICAL similarities, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson wrote memoirs that were remarkably dissimilar. Franklin's, incomplete at death in 1790, was written in four settings (1771, 1784, 1788, and 1789-1790) and reviews life up to 1758. Jefferson's, also incomplete when died in 1826, was written during first half of 1821 and covers life from 1743 to 1790. Jefferson carries readers into Early National Period and then abruptly ends without sharing either details or insights about continued role (as, for instance, President for eight years) in Republic's rise to international recognition. Franklin, like Jefferson a pivotal figure in foundation of Republic, dwells not on political successes of maturity but on earlier career as apprentice, printer, civic leader, and colonial official. For Franklin incompleteness was caused by mortality, not intention (fittingly, last sentence of Franklin's manuscript lacks a period); in Jefferson's case reverse holds. Naturally, each man stressed those aspects of life that, at time wrote autobiography, seemed to him most important to posterity. Franklin includes vivid anecdotes about adolescence in Boston (Jefferson ignores youth), depicts formative years as printer in Philadelphia and London (Jefferson hurries to era of revolution), anti details philanthropic, diplomatic, military, and financial activities in years leading up to war. Neither writer devotes time to family Besides content, among many things that differentiate their approaches to autobiography--sense of audience, prose style, use of persona, and tone--perhaps most intriguing is creativity and part it plays in textual revision of real life. Despite abundant readings of Franklin's place in autobiographical tradition from St. Augustine to Malcolm X, from John Bunyan to Henry Adams, has never been juxtaposed with compatriot Thomas Jefferson, whose memoirs have rarely been discussed alone, much less in company of luminaries just named. Because Franklin's autobiography is, as Lewis Leary claims and countless scholars believe, his country's first masterwork (33), it behooves us to read it beside Jefferson's in order to study an issue regarding direction of early American literature. These two works encapsulate conflict within post-revolutionary American mind regarding fiction. Encoded in each autobiography is one of two opposing views toward just before and but many years after founding of United States. Contrasting Jefferson and Franklin is not simply a matter of tallying contrary features, but of illuminating way domestic attitudes toward and art were engrained in their autobiographies. Although imagination and fiction are not synonyms, there is some debate over relationship between these two terms and their place in creation and study of autobiography. James Cox concedes that autobiography deals with unforgettable imaginative but nonetheless insists that because it falls between history and fictive narrative and can be corroborated by public and private record, autobiography must be classified as inchoate nonfictional prose (Autobiography, 145, 146). Cox believes autobiographer may achieve freedom of interpretation but likewise contends that fact binds him to the sequence of past events in a way that precludes fictional status (146). This historical necessity aside, William Spengemann and L. R. Lundquist argue that autobiographer (like Franklin) who seeks to reflect one of culture's shared myths must assume one of many stances. In process he creates a fictive character who undergoes adventures drawn from author's memory and a persona who reports these experiences and evaluates them according to their place in cultural pattern (502). …" @default.
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• W28016857 title "Autobiography and Archive: Franklin, Jefferson, and the Revised Self" @default.
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