Bibliography
NOTE: Quotations from some works from the eighteenth century and earlier have been lightly edited, adjusting capitalization and spelling to conform to modern styles.
Books
Eighteenth-Century Plays, with an Introduction by Ricardo Quintana. New York: Random House, 1952.
Andrews, J. R. The Life of George Whitefield. 1879. Reprinted by Quinta Press, 2000.
Barnett, Dene. The Art of Gesture: The Practices and Principles of 18th-Century Acting. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 1987.
Benedetti, Jean. The Art of the Actor. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Random House, 1992.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1987.
Chaplin, Joyce E., ed. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.
Cousins, Norman, ed. In God We Trust: The Religious Beliefs and Ideas of the American Founding Fathers. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Dallimore, Arnold. George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the Eighteenth-Century Revival. 2 vols. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1970.
DeRitter, Jones. The Embodiment of Characters: The Representation of Physical Experience on Stage and in Print 1728–1749. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Fay, Bernard. Franklin, the Apostle of Modern Times. New York: Little, Brown, 1929.
Gaustad, Edwin S., ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America to the Civil War. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982.
Gaustad, Edwin Scott. A Religious History of America. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Gillies, John. Memoirs of the Life of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A. London: Dilly, 1772.
Gledstone, James Paterson. George Whitefield M.A.: Field Preacher. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900.
Gragg, Rod. By the Hand of Providence. New York: Howard, 2011.
———Forged in Faith. New York: Howard, 2010.
Hoffer, Peter Charles. When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2011.
Huang, Nian-Sheng. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790–1990. Canton, MA: American Philosophical Society, 1994.
Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Jenkins, Simon. A Short History of England. London: Profile, 2011.
Johnson, Paul. A History of Christianity. New York: Touchstone, 1976.
LeBeau, Bryan F. Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
McMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Mahaffey, Jerome Dean. The Accidental Revolutionary: George Whitefield & the Creation of America. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011.
Mansfield, Stephen. Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2001.
Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Murray, Iain H. Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1987.
Nagler, A. M. A Sourcebook in Theatrical History. New York: Dover Publications, 1952.
Oberg, Barbara B. and Harry S. Stout, eds. Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Philip, Robert. The Life and Times of the Reverend George Whitefield. London: George Virtue, 1842.
Sanford, Charles L., ed. Benjamin Franklin and the American Character. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1955.
Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Holt, 2005.
Seligman, Adam B. Innerworldly Individualism: Charismatic Community and Its Institutionalization. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
Stout, Harry S., The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1991.
Tyerman, Luke. The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield. 2 vols. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1877.
Wentz, Richard E. Religion in the New World: The Shaping of Religious Traditions in the United States. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1990.
Wesley, Charles. Journal of Charles Wesley. 2 vols. London: John Mason, 1849. Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1960.
Wesley, John. The Heart of John Wesley’s Journal. Edited by Percy Livingston Parker. New Canaan, CT: Keats, 1979.
Whitefield, George. Sermons of George Whitefield. Edited by Evelyn Bence. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009.
Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Wright, Louis B., Everyday Life in Colonial America. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965.
Articles
Aldridge, Alfred Owen. “Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Gazette.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106, no. 1 (February 15, 1962): 77–81.
Aldridge, Marion D. “George Whitefield: The Necessary Interdependence of Preaching Style and Sermon Content to Effect Revival.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 23, no. 1 (March 1980): 55–64.
Bosco, Ronald A. “ ‘He That Best Understands the World, Least Likes It’: The Dark Side of Benjamin Franklin.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 111, no. 4 (October 1987): 525–54.
Fea, John. “Religion And Early Politics: Benjamin Franklin and His Religious Beliefs.” Pennsylvania Heritage 37, no. 4 (Fall 2011).
Gragg, Larry. “A Mere Civil Friendship.” History Today 28, no. 9 (September 1978).
Lambert, Frank. “Subscribing for Profits and Piety: The Friendship of Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield.” William & Mary Quarterly 50, no. 3 (July 1993): 529–54.
———. “Pedlar in Divinity: George Whitefield and the Great Awakening, 1737–1745.” Journal of American History 77, no. 3 (December 1990).
Mahaffey, Jerome Dean. “George Whitefield’s Homiletic Art: Neo-sophism in the Great Awakening.” Homiletic 31, no. 1 (2006).
Miller, C. William. “Franklin’s Poor Richard Almanacs: Their Printing and Publication.” Studies in Bibliography 14 (1961): 97–115.
Sanford, Charles L. “An American Pilgrim’s Progress.” American Quarterly 6, no. 4 (Winter 1954): 297–310.
Stout, Harry S. “George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin: Thoughts on a Peculiar Friendship.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 3rd ser., 103 (1991): 9–23.
Wiliams, John R. “The Strange Case of Dr. Franklin and Mr. Whitefield.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 102, no. 4 (October 1978).
Zuckerman, Michael. “Food for Thought: America’s Accessible Founder.” Pennsylvania Legacies 6, no. 1 (May 2006): 36–37.
The Country-Parson’s Advice to His Parishioners. Google eBook. London: Benj. Tooke, 1680.
Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1905.
Francke, August Hermann. Nicodemus, or A Treatise Against the Fear of Man. 3rd ed. Bath: S. Hazard, 1801.
Law, William. A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life. London: Innys, 1729. Accessed through Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org.
Mather, Samuel. The Life of Dr. Cotton Mather. Minneapolis, MN: Curiosmith, 2012.
Ralph, James. The Touch-stone. London: Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1729.
Scougal, Henry. The Life of God in the Soul of Man. Accessed through ccel.org.
Seward, William. Journal of a Voyage. 1740. Accessed through Quinta Press.
Other Sites and Sources
Christian History magazine. Worcester, PA: and Carol Stream, IL: Christian History Institute, 1982–2014. Especially issues 23, 38, 41, 77, 89, II-1 and IV-4.
“Silence Dogood” letters from New-England Courant, found at www.historycarper.com.
Pennsylvania Gazette and other colonial newspapers available at www.accessible-archives.com.
Franklin writings and correspondence at www.franklinpapers.org.
Whitefield writings, including his Journals and Works (sermons and correspondence), at www.quintapress.com.
The Quinta Press collection includes:
George Whitefield’s Journals. Shropshire, England: Quinta Press, 2000.
The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A., vol. 1–5. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1771.
Wakeley, J. B., Anecdotes of the Rev. George Whitefield, M.A., London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1879.
Sermons on Important Subjects by the Rev. George Whitefield, M.A. London: Henry Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1836.