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Benjamin Franklin's Interiors
- Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2008
- pp. 27-58
- 10.1353/eam.2008.0002
- Article
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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.