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The Freedom of the Will. The Great Awakening. John
Woolman and Quaker Humanitarianism.
III. Secular and Liberal America: Benjamin Franklin 38
The Autobiography. Thrift and Poor Richard. Foreign In-
fluences: Scientific Deism and Its Corollaries. Frank-
lin's Morality. Humanitarianism and Public Service.
Science and Liberalism. The Attack on Traditional
Institutions: Satire. Franklin as a Man of the World:
The Bagatelles.
IV. Political Literature: Dickinson, Paine, and the Authors of
the Federalist 		47
The Revolutionary Argument. John Dickinson. Thomas
Paine. Hamilton, Madison, and the Federalist.
V. Toward Belle-lettres in America: Philip Freneau 55
Two Kinds of Literature. The New Interest in Literature
as an Art. Freneau's Equipment for Poetry. Freneau's
Political Writing: Poetry and Journalism. Freneau's
Nonpolitical Writing.
VI. Foundations of a Profession of Letters 64
The Early Drama. Charles Brockden Brown and the
Early Novel. Periodicals and the Periodical Essay. A
Summary: Treatment of Eighteenth-Century Literature.
From Eighteenth Century to Nineteenth.
Part Three

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1800-1870)
ROMANTIC ART IN AN AGRARIAN REPUBLIC
CHAPTER ONE: THE ROMANTIC IMPULSE AND THE AMERICAN
ENVIRONMENT 		75
Romanticism as a Permanent Literary Quality. Ro-
manticism as a Historical Movement: Individualism.
The Enlargement of the Bounds of Experience: (1) The
Emotions; (2) Remote Times and Places; (3) Nature;
(4) The Common Man. American Influences and the
Romantic Movement: (1) An Achieved Democracy;

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