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Author:

Eyring, Mary Kathleen, author.

Title:

Captains of charity : the writing and wages of postrevolutionary Atlantic benevolence / Mary Kathleen Eyring.

Publisher:

University of New Hampshire Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Benevolence in literature.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--18th century.
Public welfare--United States--History.
Altruism in literature.
Didactic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"To be the medium of her charity": narratives of vicarious charity from Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic of 1793 -- Atlantic publishing and pathos: literary support for the education of maritime laborers at America's first schools for the deaf -- The economics of evangelizing: missionary labor in a narrative of the life and travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince -- The profits of maritime benevolence: Sarah Josepha Hale and the work of the charitable woman writer -- Conclusion: charitable currents.

Series:

Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies

ISBN:

1512600989
9781512600988
1512600997
9781512600995

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961801411

LCCN:

2016055635

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)