TY - BOOK AU - Barbour, Brian M. TI - Benjamin Franklin: a collection of critical essays SN - 130748560 AV - E 302.6 .B46 1979 PY - 1979/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice-Hall, KW - AMERICAN LITERATURE -- COLONIAL PERIOD N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction -- Franklin's character -- The spirit of capitalism -- Franklin and the divided heritage and puritanism -- Franklin and emerson -- The printer as a man of letters -- Benjamin Franklin: The making of an american character -- Benjamin Franklin -- The autobiography of benjamin franklin -- Franklin and spiritual autobiography -- Franklin and the shaping of american ideology N2 - This outlook, presented in the Autobiography and in a handful of congruent essays ER -