Norton Critical Editions: Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography

基本信息

Edited by:Joyce E. Chaplin

Series:Norton Critical Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 480 pages

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Imprint:WW Norton & Co

Edition:Critical ed

ISBN:9780393935615

Published:17 Jan 2012

Classifications:USA, c 1700 to c 1800, Autobiography: historical, political & military, History of the Americas, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Political leaders & leadership

Readership:Professional & Vocational

Weight:462g

Dimensions:175 x 213 x 24 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这本自传写于本杰明·富兰克林一生中最重要的岁月(1771-90)，是历史上最有影响力的回忆录之一。

诺顿文学解读系列版本的导言部分解释了自传的历史，不仅解释了传记的名人史，也解释了自传的历史。文本附有新的、扩展的解释性注释、一张地图、一幅插图和六幅摹本。

“Contexts”从更广泛的角度展示了富兰克林的生活，其中包括1726年的航海日志、书信、穷理查关于野心和名望的一篇文章、富兰克林关于自我完善的观点以及他的遗愿(还有附录)。

“Criticism”引用了大量的材料，既反映了富兰克林广泛的成就，也反映了他的生活和回忆录对全球的影响。“Contemporary Opinions”中的国际声音包括康德(Immanuel Kant)、里奎提(Honore Gabriel Riqueti)、米拉波伯爵(Comte de Mirabeau)、阿尔扎特·y·拉米雷斯(Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez)和科里亚·弗朗西斯科·达·塞拉(Jose Francisco Correia da Serra)。“Nineteenth-Century Opinions”包括汉弗莱·戴维(Humphry Davy)对富兰克林发现电的看法，以及Shoken皇后对受富兰克林启发的日本诗歌的看法。最后“Modern Opinions”重印了一些重要的片段:i.b.科恩对富兰克林的看法和自传对科学的重要性；Michael Warner对写作和印刷实践的理论解释以及它们告诉我们的关于富兰克林的事情；以及彼得·斯塔利巴斯对富兰克林写作的深刻见解和引人入胜的书的历史视角，尤其是他的自传。

书中还包括富兰克林的生平年表、精选书目和索引。

The only edition of the celebrated Autobiography that includes the long-missing and recently identified “Wagon Letters.”

Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771–90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the Autobiography within the larger history of the life-writing genre as well as within the history of celebrity. The text is accompanied by new and expanded explanatory annotations and by a map, an illustration, and six facsimiles.

“Contexts” presents a broader view of Franklin’s life with a journal entry from a 1726 voyage, correspondence, a Poor Richard piece on ambition and fame, Franklin’s views on self-improvement, and his last will (and codicil).

“Criticism” draws on a wealth of material that reflects both the wide range of Franklin’s achievements and the global impact of his life and memoirs. New international voices in “Contemporary Opinions” include Immanuel Kant, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, and José Francisco Correia da Serra. “Nineteenth-Century Opinions” includes Humphry Davy on Franklin’s discovery of electricity as well as Empress Shoken of Japan’s Franklin-inspired poem. Finally, “Modern Opinions” reprints important pieces: I. B. Cohen on Franklin and the Autobiography's importance to science; Michael Warner’s theoretical interpretation of the practices of writing and printing and what they tell us about Franklin; and Peter Stallybrass’s insightful and engaging history-of-the-book perspective on Franklin’s writing generally and the Autobiography specifically.

A Chronology of Franklin’s life, a Selected Bibliography, and an Index are also included.

目录

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

Maps: Franklin's Boston, Philadelphia, and London

THE TEXT OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Autobiography

"A Quire Book of Letters"

The Outline of the Autobiography

A Guide to People Mentioned in the Autobiography

CONTEXTS

Journal of a Voyage, 1726

Excerpts from Franklin's Letters Mentioning the

Autobiography

"Authentic Memoir of Dr. Franklyn"

EXCERPTS FROM FRANKLIN'S WRITINGS ON AMBITION AND FAME, WEALTH,

AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT

AMBITION AND FAME

From Poor Richard Improved, 1750

From Poor Richard Improved, Jan. 1758

To Sarah (Franklin) Bache, June 3, 1779

From Benjamin Vaughn, May 1785

From Jane Mecom, July 21, 1786

WEALTH

To Cadwallader Colden, Sept. 29, 1748

To William Strahan, June 2, 1750

To Jane Mecom, Dec. 30, 1770

To Thomas Cushing, June 10, 1771

Benjamin Vaughn to Lord Shelburne, Nov. 24, 1782

To Robert Morris, Dec. 25, 1783

To Benjamin Vaughn, July 26, 1784

Last Will and Testament, 1788, and Codicil, 1789

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

Franklin's Epitaph, 1728

Franklin's Junto Query on Human Perfection, 1732

[Poor Richard on Self-Improvement, 1749]

Rules for Making Oneself a Disagreeable Companion, 1749

To Lord Kames, May 3, 1760

To Abiah Franklin, Apr. 12, 1750

To Joseph Priestley, Sept. 19, 1772

CRITICISM

CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS

Immanuel Kant ? [The Modern Prometheus]

David Hume ? To Franklin, May 10, 1762

Franklin in the Cockpit ? The Pennsylvania Gazette

Report, 1774

Benjamin Vaughn's Account, 1779

Edmund Burke ? To Count Patrick D'Arcy, Oct. 5, 1775

From the New-Jersey Gazette, Dec. 31, 1777

Peter Oliver ?From Origins & Progress of the American

Rebellion

Richard Price ? To Franklin, May 1790

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau ? Eulogy for

Franklin before the National Assembly of France, 1790

Jose Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez ? A Brief Eulogy

for Benjamin Franklin, 1790

Jose Francisco Correia da Serra ? Eulogy for Franklin to

the Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, 1791

John Adams ? On Franklin, May 15, 1811

NINETEENTH-CENTURY OPINIONS

Francis, Lord Jeffrey ?From the Edinburgh Review,

1806

Charles Brockden Brown ?From Literary Magazine,

1806

John Keats ? To George and Georgiana Keats, Oct. 14-31,

1818

Humphry Davy ? Historical Sketch of Electrical

Discovery

Edgar Allan Poe ? The Business Man

Leigh Hunt ?From Hunt's Autobiography

Herman Melville ?From Israel Potter

Mark Twain ? The Late Benjamin Franklin

Empress Sh?ken of Japan ? [A Franklinian Poem], c.

1890

Frederick Jackson Turner ?FromThe Dial, May 1887

William Dean Howells ? From Editor's Study, Apr. 1888

From Editor's Study, July 1888

From Editor's Study, Jan. 1890

From Editor's Easy Chair, Oct. 1905

RECENT OPINIONS

Max Weber ?From The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of

Capitalism

D. H. Lawrence ? Benjamin Franklin

W. Somerset Maugham ? [The Classic Books of America]

I. B. Cohen ? Franklin and Science

David Levin ? The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: The

Puritan Experimenter in Life and Art

Michael Warner ? Franklin: The Representational Politics of

the Man of Letters

Peter Stallybrass ? Benjamin Franklin: Printed Collections

and Erasable Writing

Benjamin Franklin: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index

作者简介

本杰明·富兰克林是一位作家、发明家、政治理论家、外交家和美国的开国元勋。1732年至1757年，他以“穷理查”为笔名写作。

Benjamin Franklin was a writer, inventor, political theorist, diplomat, and Founding Father of the United States. He wrote under the pen name of Poor Richard from 1732 to 1757.

乔伊斯·e·卓别林是哈佛大学詹姆斯·邓肯·菲利普斯早期美国历史教授。她曾在两大洲和一个岛屿的五所大学任教，并在大西洋中部的一个海事研究项目中任教。她著有《焦虑的追求:1730-1815年南部南部的农业创新和现代性》、《主题:1500-1676年英美边境的技术、身体和科学》、《第一科学美国人:本杰明·富兰克林与天才的追求》(2006)和《本杰明·富兰克林的政治算术:人性的唯物主义观点》(2009)。

Joyce E. Chaplin is James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University. She has taught at five different universities on two continents and an island and in a maritime studies program in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She is the author of An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993), Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001), The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (2006), and Benjamin Franklin's Political Arithmetic: A Materialist View of Humanity (2009).