| Description |
1 online resource (x, 299 pages) |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Contents |
Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey -- Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America / Lori Merish -- "Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as a model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction / Mary Templin -- Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel / Whitney A. Womack -- "The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" / Debra Bernardi -- Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert -- "Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's motherly benevolence / Jill Bergman -- Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak -- "To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum / Sarah E. Chinn -- Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" / James Salazar |
| Summary |
Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau?s insistence on an ascetic life. Women in the 19th century, as these essays show, approached issues of benevolence far differently than their male counterparts, consistent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Benevolence in literature.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Charity in literature.
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Poverty in literature.
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Poor in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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American literature -- Women authors
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Benevolence in literature
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Charity in literature
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Literature and society
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Poor in literature
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Poverty in literature
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Women and literature
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Letterkunde.
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Amerikaans.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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Liefdadigheid.
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Armoede.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bergman, Jill, 1963-
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Bernardi, Debra, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780817381660 |
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081738166X |
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9780817314675 |
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0817314679 |
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9780817351939 |
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0817351930 |
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