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Routledge
Aims to modify the periodization for the American Enlightenment. Americans did accept an early and moderate Enlightenment characterised by the work of Locke and Newton. This collection highlights the functional nature of the Enlightenment in America.
Volume 2: Education Literature and the Fine Arts Introduction Education Pedagogical Promotion ‘Hippocrates Mithridate’ [William Livingston], Some Serious Thoughts on the Design of Erecting a College in the Province of New-York (1749) [William Smith], Some Thoughts on Education (1752) [Timothy Dwight], An Essay on Education; Delivered at the Public Commencement, at Yale College, in New Haven, September 9th, 1772 (1772) [Anthony Benezet], Some Necessary Remarks on the Education of the Youth on the Country Parts of This and the Neighbouring Governments ([1778]) Popular Consumption of Knowledge [Anon.], The Balloon Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1786 (1785) Noah Webster, A Syllabus of Mr. Webster’s Lectures on the English Language and on Education (1786) Institutional Innovation and Education of Women [Anon.], The System of Public Education, Adopted by the Town of Boston, 15th Oct. 1789 Recommendations to the Schoolmasters, by the Committee Appointed to Carry into Execution the System of Public Education, Adopted by the Town of Boston, the 15th of October 1789 (1789) An Act for the Encouragement of Schools, April 9, 1795 (1795) ‘A Lady’, The Female Advocate (1801) In Assembly, February 5, 1814. Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools (1814) Literature and the Fine Arts Literary Dilettantes and Popular Cultural Consumption ‘A Gentleman Educated at Yale College’ [William Livingston], Philosophic Solitude: The Choice of a Rural Life, A Poem (1762) Gentlemen and Ladies Town and Country Magazine (May 1789), excerpt Gentlemen and Ladies Town and Country Magazine (August 1789), excerpt [George Colman], Faint Wearily Way-Worn Traveller (1794) General Magazine and Impartial Review ( July 1798), excerpt Institutional Innovation [Charleston Library Society], Rules of the Society for Erecting a Library, and Raising a Fund for an Academy at Charles-Town in South Carolina (1750) [Boston Library Society], Catalogue of Books in the Boston Library (1800) Aesthetic Theory and Practice ‘R.’, ‘On Taste’, Monthly Anthology and Boston Review (8 August 1808) [Anon.], ‘Essay on Akenside’s Pleasures of the Imagination’, Harvard Lyceum (23 February 1811) [Anon.], ‘Beauty,’ Second American Edition of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (1816), excerpt [Anon.], ‘Philosophy of Musical Composition – No. X (Continued)’, Euterpeiad; or Musical Intelligencer, and Ladies Gazette ( June 1823) Editorial Notes
Biography
Jose R Torre
