Franklin's Reception at the Court of France, 1778
Hand-colored lithograph by John Smith, n.d. (Philadelphia)
from a painting by Anton Hohenstein, c. 1813-5.
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J. A. Leo Lemay, H. F. DuPont Winterthur Professor of English, University of Delaware, will deliver the plenary lecture at the EC/ASECS 2006 annual meeting. Among the books Professor Lemay has published are New England's Annoyances: America's First Folk Song (1985); Canon of Benjamin Franklin, 1722-1776: New Attributions and Reconsiderations (1986); American Dream of Captain John Smith (1991). He edited the Library of America's Benjamin Franklin Writings (1987) and The Oldest Revolutionary: Essays on Benjamin Franklin (1999). He has posted on the Internet "Benjamin Franklin: A Documentary History" (www.english.udel/lemay/franklin), which offers a helpful overview of the phases of Franklin's life. Referred to as "the dean of Franklin scholars," Professor Lemay is currently working on a seven volume biography of Benjamin Franklin being published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2005 both volumes one and two were published: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Journalist, 1706-1730 and The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747. The subject of his plenary lecture, not surprisingly, will be Benjamin Franklin. It is particularly appropriate to focus on Benjamin Franklin not only because he played such an important role in America and Europe in the eighteenth century, and because he was a person of such interdisciplinary interests, but also because in 2006 we are celebrating the three hundredth year of his birth.
Franklin's Reception at the Court of France, 1778
Hand-colored lithograph by John Smith, n.d. (Philadelphia)
from a painting by Anton Hohenstein, c. 1813-5.
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