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Ú STUDIES IN CULTURAL HISTORY Making the American Self Ú D W H ANIEL ALKER OWE Making the American Self Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 1997 Copyright©1997bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Howe,DanielWalker. MakingtheAmericanself:JonathanEdwardstoAbrahamLincoln/ DanielWalkerHowe. p. cm.—(Studesinculturalhistory) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN:0–674–16555–1(alk.paper) 1. Nationalcharacteristics,American. 2. Identity(Psychology)— UnitedStates. 3. UnitedStates—Intellectuallife—1783–1865. I. Title. II. Series. E169.1.H76 1997 96–34982 For Sandra Contents Introduction 1 I Virtue and Passion in the American Enlightenment 1 Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature 21 2 The American Founders and the Scottish Enlightenment 48 3 The Political Psychology of The Federalist 78 II Constructing Character in Antebellum America 4 The Emerging Ideal of Self-Improvement 107 5 Self-Made Men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass 136 6 Shaping the Selves of Others 157 III The Cultivation of the Self Among the New England Romantics 7 The Platonic Quest in New England 189 8 Margaret Fuller’s Heroic Ideal of Womanhood 212 9 The Constructed Self Against the State 235 Conclusion 256 Notes 271 Acknowledgments 332 Index 335 Self-culture is possible, not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves. This is a fearful as well as glorious endowment. —William Ellery Channing, Self-Culture, 1838
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