Persona-lly Appealing: Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard and Authorial Self-Representation

While scholarship on Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography describes his use of persona in nuanced terms, scholarship on Franklin’s earlier writings tends to characterize his use of persona as simply a device he used to eliminate personal details from his texts. This article, focused on Franklin’s Poor...

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Main Author: Patricia F. Tarantello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ghent University 2016-06-01
Series:Authorship
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Online Access:http://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/2353/2504