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Paperback Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women Book

ISBN: 0817351930

ISBN13: 9780817351939

Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women

(Part of the Studies in American Realism and Naturalism Series)

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...

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