The Age of Benjamin Franklin Episode 10, Benjamin Franklin: American Satirist Episode 10, Benjamin Franklin: American Satirist.

Streaming video - 2018

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.

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[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2018.
2019.
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English
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Robert J. Allison (actor)
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