ENG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: American Civil War, Present Tense, Tabloid Journalism
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Members of enlightenment saw themselves as creating a community of letters. Republic of reading citizens: central to emergence of modernity. Printing led to rise of the bourgeois. Rational political discourse: franklin is central to this development. Print allowed the public to make use of their reason. Franklin treated the autobiography as a private record. Franklin sees his life as a book, what if there was a second edition. Character comes from a word that means stamp. Life understood to have some features of books. Life like a book can be exposed to public. When franklin was born most states did not have printers. Franklin"s life correlates to the expansion of the press. Franklin represents the idea of the written subject. Franklin struggled with the ideas of who he was. P. 14-15: franklin talks about how to develop his own prose. It was the principal means of my advancement . Imitate other writers to learn your own writing style.
