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Our sisters' keepers nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women
Title
Our sisters' keepers [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women / edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi.
ISBN
0817314679 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0817351930 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
Physical Description
x, 299 p.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2014
Series
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-288) and index.
Contents
Stories of the poorhouse / Karen Tracey
Representing the "deserving poor" / Lori Merish
"Dedicated to works of beneficence" / Mary Templin
Reforming women's reform literature / Whitney A. Womack
"The right to be let alone" / Debra Bernardi
Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett / Monika Elbert
"Oh the poor women!" / Jill Bergman
Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community / Terry D. Novak
"To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" / Sarah E. Chinn
Character's conduct / James Salazar.
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