Daniel Walker Howe

Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

INTRODUCTION I VIRTUE AND PASSION IN THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT 1. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Problem of Human Nature 2. The American Founders and the Scottish Enlightenment 3. The Political Psychology of The Federalist II CONSTRUCTING CHARACTER IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 4. The Emerging Ideal of Self-Improvement 5. Self-Made Men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass 6. Shaping the Selves of Others III THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF AMONG THE NEW ENGLAND ROMANTICS 7. The Platonic Quest in New England 8. Margaret Fullers Heroic Ideal of Womanhood 9. The Constructed Self Against the State CONCLUSION NOTES