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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aRyan, Susan M. _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Grammar of Good Intentions : _bRace and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence / _cSusan M. Ryan.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2004
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIllustrations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tINTRODUCTION. Toward a Cultural History of Good Intentions -- _tCHAPTER ONE. Benevolent Violence: Indian Removal and the Contest of National Character -- _tCHAPTER TWO. Misgivings: Duplicity and Need in Melville's Late Fiction -- _tCHAPTER THREE. The Racial Polities of Self-Reliance -- _tCHAPTER FOUR. Pedagogies of Emancipation -- _tCHAPTER FIVE. Charity Begins at Home: Stowe’s Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship -- _tCHAPTER SIX . “Save Us from Our Friends”: Free African Americans and the Culture of Benevolence -- _tEPILOGUE. The Afterlife of Benevolent Citizenship -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aSusan 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 ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. "The links between race and the relations of benevolence occasioned much soul-searching among antebellum Americans," Ryan explains. "In a period of heated public debate over issues such as slavery, Indian removal, and non-Protestant immigration, the categories of blackness, Indianness, and a generic 'foreignness' came to signify, for many whites, need itself."Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons, and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.Ryan's inquiry into the antebellum culture of benevolence has implications for contemporary U.S. society, resonating especially with recent debates over welfare reform, the politics of compassionate conservatism, and representations of "welfare queens" and violent urban youth. As Ryan writes, "The conversations that this book reconstructs remind us of our ongoing participation in the national ritual of laying claim to good intentions."
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aBenevolence in literature.
650		0	_aBenevolence _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aRace relations in literature.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aU.S. History.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
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