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Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women /
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 America...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 299 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817381660 081738166X 9780817314675 0817314679 9780817351939 0817351930 |