TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fea,John
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The way of improvement leads home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the rural Enlightenment in early America 
T2  - Early American studies
SN  - 9780812206395
AV  - F229.F56 F43 2008
U1  - 973.3/7B 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Philadelphia [Pa.]
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Fithian, Philip Vickers,
KW  - American diaries
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - United States
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Virginia
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Presbyterians
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - Biography
KW  - Tutors and tutoring
KW  - Diarists
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Chaplains
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - To 1775
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-255) and index; Introduction -- A Cohansey Home -- A Presbyterian Conversion -- Ambition -- Rural Enlightenment -- A Virginia Sojourn -- Revolution -- The Call of God -- Duty -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Note on the Fithian Diaries
N2  - The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian longed for something more- to improve himself in a revolutionary world that was making upward mobility possible. Fithian is best known for the diary that he wrote in 1773-74 while working as a tutor at Nomini Hall, the Virginia plantation of Robert Carter, and his role as a Revolutionary War chaplain. From the villages of New Jersey, Fithian was able to participate indirectly in the eighteenth-century republic of letters- a transatlantic intellectual community. Participation required a commitment to self-improvement that demanded a belief in the Enlightenment values of human potential and social progress. He constantly struggled to reconcile this quest for a cosmopolitan life with his love of home. It was the people, the religious culture, and the very landscape of his "native sod" that continued to hold Fithian's affections
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812206395/
ER  -