The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian's Rural Enlightenment, by John Fea

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Additional Related Primary Source Materials Online

Addison & Steele, The Spectator (1710–11)
http://harvest.rutgers.edu/projects/spectator/complete.html

Cato's Letters (1720–23)
http://www.constitution.org/cl/cato_000.htm

Frances Brooke, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Philip Doddridge, Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul (1745)
http://www.ccel.org/d/doddridge/rise/rise.htm

Philip Vickers Fithian, A Princeton Student's Typical Routine
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/02/0916/2no.html

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac (1753 ed.)
http://www.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/his341/pra1753contents.html

Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50) at the Internet Library of Early Journals Web site
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. (1759-67)
http://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/~masaru/TS/contents.html

Thomas Paine, Selected Writings
http://www.constitution.org/tp/paine.htm

Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson
http://www.blackmask.com/books61c/pameladex.htm

 

Seconday Sources

General

Cumberland County Historical Society
http://www.cchistsoc.org/

Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/index.html

Internet Modern History Sourcebook entry on the Enlightenment
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook10.html

Religion

History of Deerfield Church
http://home.att.net/~williamgreenhouse/deerfieldfacts.html

History of Early American Presbyterian Church
http://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/presintr.htm

New Jersey Churchscape
http://66.92.127.80/

Religion in Virginia
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/religion/

 

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