Title Benjamin Franklin's vision of American community : a study in rhetorical iconology / Lester C. Olson

Published Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 323 pages : illustrations) Series Studies in rhetoric/communication Studies in rhetoric/communication. Contents Franklin's emblems and devices : an orientation and conceptual approach -- Franklin's earliest commentary envisioning colony union -- Join, or Die, 1754 -- Magna Britannia : her colonies Reduc'd, 1765-1766 -- We Are One, 1776 -- Libertas Americana, 1782-1783 -- Interludes and transformations : Franklin's verbal images representing Bristian America -- National character and the Great Seal of the United States Summary "Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community focuses on the rhetoric of the pictorial images Benjamin Franklin created to represent the British colonies that became the United States. Franklin designed at least one such image during each decade from the 1750s to the 1780s. No other American colonist's pictorial representations of the emerging nation were more original or influential in their time than Franklin's." "Olson contends that attention to the visual images created in each of these roles dramatizes fundamental changes in Franklin's sensibility concerning British America. In 1754 Franklin was an American Whig supporter of the British Empire's constitutional monarchy. During the late 1750s and early 1760s he veered toward increasing the power of the Crown over Pennsylvania by changing the colony's form of government before ultimately rejecting constitutional monarchy and advocating republican politics during the 1770s and 1780s. The shifts in Franklin's fundamental political commitments are among the most arresting aspects of his life. Benjamin Franklin's Vision of American Community highlights these changes as it examines his pictorial representations of British America through several decades."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-303) and index Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Symbolism SUBJECT Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. fast (OCoLC)fst00034115 Franklin, Benjamin. swd Subject Art -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century Art, American -- 18th century Art, American. Art -- Political aspects. Rhetoric -- Political aspects. Symbolism. Politische Rede Symbolismus United States. Genre/Form works of art. Art. History. Art. Œuvres d'art. Form Electronic book LC no. 2003021485

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