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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 ideologies that ultimately marginalized even the most "deserving" poor. 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Grammar of Good Intentions
• Subtitle: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence
• Author: Susan M. Ryan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780801489853
• ISBN: 0801489857
• ID: 04708101
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2004

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