Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence by Jill Annette Bergman,Debra Bernardi,Sarah E. Chinn,Mary

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By Jill Annette Bergman,Debra Bernardi,Sarah E. Chinn,Mary Templin,Whitney A. Womack,Monika Elbert,Terry D. Novak,James Salazar,Karen Tracey,Lori Merish

American tradition has lengthy had a conflicted dating with advice to the negative. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop have been staunch proponents of Christian charity as basic to colonial American society, whereas transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism in the direction of benevolence in prefer of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau’s insistence on an ascetic lifestyles. girls within the nineteenth century, as those essays express, approached problems with benevolence a long way in a different way than their male opposite numbers, always selling information to the impoverished, in either their acts and their writings. 

These essays tackle a variety of topics: photos of the sentimental seamstress determine in women’s fiction; Rebecca Harding Davis’s rewriting of the “industrial” novel; Sarah Orne Jewett’s position within the transcendental culture of skepticism towards charity, and her subversion of it; the style of the poorhouse narrative; and the philanthropic paintings and writings of Hull condo founder Jane Addams. 

As the editors of Our Sisters’ Keepers argue, the weak and marginal positions occupied via many ladies within the nineteenth century fostered an empathetic sensitivity in them to the plight of the negative, and their skill to behave and write in advocacy of the impoverished provided a sort of empowerment no longer another way to be had to them. the outcome used to be the reformulation of the idea that of the yankee individual.

 

Contributors comprise: Jill Bergman, Debra Bernardi, Sarah E. Chinn, Monika Elbert, Lori Merish, Terry D. Novak, James Salazar, Mary Templin, Karen Tracey, Whitney A. Womack

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