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Benjamin Franklin's interiors.(Critical essay)

Refinement hence even humblest life improves; Not the loose fair, that form and frippery loves; But she, whose mansion is the gentle mind, In thought, and action, virtuously refin'd.

--Timothy Dwight, Greenfield Hill

ABSTRACT This essay investigates the problem of articulating psychological interiority in eighteenth-century American writing by considering Franklin's ideologically divided relationship to the architectural interiors of his 1764 Market Street town house and his rhetorical strategies for managing and representing his upward mobility.

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The writings of Benjamin Franklin offer only meager representations of his inner life. To be sure, they ...

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