Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women

The Resource Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women

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Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women

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nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women

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edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi

Language

eng

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

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N$T

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810.9/3556

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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index present

LC call number

PS169.B54

LC item number

O94 2005eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

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