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Title The Age of Benjamin Franklin. Episode 10, Benjamin Franklin: American Satirist
Published The Great Courses, 2018
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary The 18th century was also the golden age of satire, which provided an excellent way to question authority and challenge received wisdom. As you will learn in this lecture, Franklin was among peers with Swift, Defoe, and Voltaire, and he used personas like Silence Dogood to offer blistering critiques of society
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Robert J. Allison
Event Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2018
Notes In English
Subject History, Modern.
Americans.
Americans.
History, Modern.
Genre/Form Education films.
Form Streaming video
Author J. Allison, Robert, actor
The Great Courses (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)