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Captains of charity : the writing and wages of postrevolutionary Atlantic benevolence
- Title
- Captains of charity : the writing and wages of postrevolutionary Atlantic benevolence / Mary Kathleen Eyring.
- Author
- Eyring, Mary Kathleen
- Publication
- Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 265 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
- Uniform Title
- Becoming modern.
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- American literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- Benevolence in literature
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Literature and society > United States > History > 18th century
- Public welfare > United States > History
- Altruism in literature
- Didactic fiction, American > History and criticism
- American literature
- Didactic fiction, American
- Literature and society
- Public welfare
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "To be the medium of her charity": narratives of vicarious charity from Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793 -- Atlantic publishing and pathos: literary support for the education of maritime laborers at America's first schools for the deaf -- The economics of evangelizing: missionary labor in a narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince -- The profits of maritime benevolence: Sarah Josepha Hale and the work of the charitable woman writer -- Conclusion: charitable currents.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-6907
- ISBN
- 9781512600988
- 1512600989
- 9781512600995
- 1512600997
- LCCN
- 2016055635
- OCLC
- 961801411
- Author
- Eyring, Mary Kathleen, author.
- Title
- Captains of charity : the writing and wages of postrevolutionary Atlantic benevolence / Mary Kathleen Eyring.
- Publisher
- Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studiesBecoming modern.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-6907