Author: Timothy Shay Arthur
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Uncle Ben's New-Year's Gift and Other Stories
Author: Timothy Shay Arthur
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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A List of Illustrated Books Suitable for Christmas Presents, New Year's Gifts, School Prizes,&c.&c. on Sale by James Bain, No. 1, Haymarket
Author: James Bain (fl. 1817-1839.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Grammar of Good Intentions
Author: Susan M. Ryan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements—and their outspoken opponents—helped solidify racial and class ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify, for many whites, need itself." Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons, and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.Ryan's inquiry into the antebellum culture of benevolence has implications for contemporary U.S. society, resonating especially with recent debates over welfare reform, the politics of compassionate conservatism, and representations of "welfare queens" and violent urban youth. As Ryan writes, "The conversations that this book reconstructs remind us of our ongoing participation in the national ritual of laying claim to good intentions."
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501718568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements—and their outspoken opponents—helped solidify racial and class ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify, for many whites, need itself." Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons, and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.Ryan's inquiry into the antebellum culture of benevolence has implications for contemporary U.S. society, resonating especially with recent debates over welfare reform, the politics of compassionate conservatism, and representations of "welfare queens" and violent urban youth. As Ryan writes, "The conversations that this book reconstructs remind us of our ongoing participation in the national ritual of laying claim to good intentions."
The History of New Jersey from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time
Author: William Henry Carpenter
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The History of New Jersey, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Etc
Author: William Henry CARPENTER (Historian of America, and ARTHUR (Timothy Shay))
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on the American frontiers ... 1812 to 1842
Author: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Alphabetical List (by Title) of the Class of Prose Fiction
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Charter, By-laws and Library Rules of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being a Logical Answer to Its Allegations and Inferences Against Slavery as an Institution
Author: Edward Josiah Stearns
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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