The Grammar of Good Intentions : : Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence / / Susan M. Ryan.
Susan M. Ryan explores antebellum Americans' preoccupation with the language and practice of benevolence. Drawing on a variety of cultural and literary texts, she traces how people working and writing within social reform movements-and their outspoken opponents-helped solidify racial and class...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 halftones |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Toward a Cultural History of Good Intentions
- CHAPTER ONE. Benevolent Violence: Indian Removal and the Contest of National Character
- CHAPTER TWO. Misgivings: Duplicity and Need in Melville's Late Fiction
- CHAPTER THREE. The Racial Polities of Self-Reliance
- CHAPTER FOUR. Pedagogies of Emancipation
- CHAPTER FIVE. Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship
- CHAPTER SIX . "Save Us from Our Friends": Free African Americans and the Culture of Benevolence
- EPILOGUE. The Afterlife of Benevolent Citizenship
- Notes
- Index