- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
- Uniform Title
- Captains of charity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Captains of charity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016055635
- OCLC
- ssj0001837739
- Author
Eyring, Mary Kathleen.
- Title
Captains of charity [electronic resource] : the writing and wages of postrevolutionary Atlantic benevolence / Mary Kathleen Eyring.
- Imprint
Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2017]
- Series
Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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