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Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women
- Title
- Our sisters' keepers : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women / edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- x, 299 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
- Uniform Title
- Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.
- Subjects
- Charity in literature
- Benevolence in literature
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Poor in literature
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Poverty in literature
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- American literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-288) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : benevolence literature by American women / Debra Bernardi and Jill Bergman -- 1. Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey -- 2. Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America / Lori Merish -- 3. "Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction / Mary Templin -- 4. Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel / Whitney A. Womack -- 5. "The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" / Debra Bernardi -- 6. Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert -- 7. "Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's motherly benevolence / Jill Bergman -- 8. Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak -- 9. "To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum / Sarah E. Chinn -- 10. Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" / James Salazar.
- ISBN
- 0817314679 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817351930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004029736
- OCLC
- ocm57414588
- SCSB-5207444
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries