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Fortune, fame, and desire : promoting the self in the long nineteenth century / / Sharon Hartman Strom
| Fortune, fame, and desire : promoting the self in the long nineteenth century / / Sharon Hartman Strom |
| Autore | Strom Sharon Hartman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/5097309034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Middle class - United States - History - 19th century
Middle class - United States Self - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century Self - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Ambition - United States - History - 19th century Ambition - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Fame - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century Fame - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Social change - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 1-4422-7266-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Fortune, fame and desire -- "I have an ambition that burns like fire" : Ephraim George Squier, race, and the North American travelogue -- "The right of defining one's position seems to be a very sacred privilege in America" : Lola Montez, Miriam Follin, E.G. Squier, and Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock -- "Yours in the name of freedom" : Frances Watkins Harper, Harriet Wilson, and the legacy of William Watkins -- "One's own branch of the human race" : Frances Watkins Harper, Anna Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass -- "Self reliance," "universal redemption," and "the obsessed woman" : Warren Chase, Juliet Stillman Severence, and Joseph Osgood Barrett -- The woman question, race, and "liberty in thought and expression" : Harriet Wilson, Paschal Beverly Randolph, and Laura Briggs James -- Coda: The present age. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798894703321 |
Strom Sharon Hartman
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fortune, fame, and desire : promoting the self in the long nineteenth century / / Sharon Hartman Strom
| Fortune, fame, and desire : promoting the self in the long nineteenth century / / Sharon Hartman Strom |
| Autore | Strom Sharon Hartman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.5/5097309034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Middle class - United States - History - 19th century
Middle class - United States Self - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century Self - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Ambition - United States - History - 19th century Ambition - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Fame - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century Fame - Economic aspects - United States - History - 19th century Social change - United States - History - 19th century |
| ISBN | 1-4422-7266-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Fortune, fame and desire -- "I have an ambition that burns like fire" : Ephraim George Squier, race, and the North American travelogue -- "The right of defining one's position seems to be a very sacred privilege in America" : Lola Montez, Miriam Follin, E.G. Squier, and Dewitt Clinton Hitchcock -- "Yours in the name of freedom" : Frances Watkins Harper, Harriet Wilson, and the legacy of William Watkins -- "One's own branch of the human race" : Frances Watkins Harper, Anna Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass -- "Self reliance," "universal redemption," and "the obsessed woman" : Warren Chase, Juliet Stillman Severence, and Joseph Osgood Barrett -- The woman question, race, and "liberty in thought and expression" : Harriet Wilson, Paschal Beverly Randolph, and Laura Briggs James -- Coda: The present age. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809164403321 |
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Strom Sharon Hartman
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seduced, abandoned, and reborn [[electronic resource] ] : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger
| Seduced, abandoned, and reborn [[electronic resource] ] : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger |
| Autore | Hessinger Rodney |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.235/086/220973 |
| Collana | Early American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Youth - United States - History - 18th century
Youth - United States - History - 19th century Youth - Books and reading - United States - History Social control - United States - History Moral education - United States - History Middle class - United States - History - 18th century Middle class - United States - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0224-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "Victims at the Shrine of Libertinism": Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2 Victim of Seduction or Vicious Woman? Conceptions of the Prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdalen Society and Beyond -- Chapter 3 "The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": The University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of Meritocracy in the Early Republic -- Chapter 4 Harvesting Youth: The Competition for Souls in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Beyond -- Chapter 5 "The Young Man's Friend": Advice Manuals and the Dangerous Journey to Self-Made Manhood -- Chapter 6 Private Libertines: Emergent Strategies for the Control of Male Youth in Bourgeois America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462619503321 |
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Hessinger Rodney
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Seduced, abandoned, and reborn [[electronic resource] ] : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger
| Seduced, abandoned, and reborn [[electronic resource] ] : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger |
| Autore | Hessinger Rodney |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.235/086/220973 |
| Collana | Early American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Youth - United States - History - 18th century
Youth - United States - History - 19th century Youth - Books and reading - United States - History Social control - United States - History Moral education - United States - History Middle class - United States - History - 18th century Middle class - United States - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
American History
American Studies |
| ISBN | 0-8122-0224-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "Victims at the Shrine of Libertinism": Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century -- Chapter 2 Victim of Seduction or Vicious Woman? Conceptions of the Prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdalen Society and Beyond -- Chapter 3 "The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": The University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of Meritocracy in the Early Republic -- Chapter 4 Harvesting Youth: The Competition for Souls in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Beyond -- Chapter 5 "The Young Man's Friend": Advice Manuals and the Dangerous Journey to Self-Made Manhood -- Chapter 6 Private Libertines: Emergent Strategies for the Control of Male Youth in Bourgeois America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787522003321 |
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Hessinger Rodney
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sentimental collaborations : mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America / / Mary Louise Kete
| Sentimental collaborations : mourning and middle-class identity in nineteenth-century America / / Mary Louise Kete |
| Autore | Kete Mary Louise |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
| Collana | New Americanists |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Mourning customs in literature Mourning customs - United States - History - 19th century Middle class - United States - History - 19th century Sentimentalism in literature Group identity in literature Middle class in literature |
| ISBN | 0-8223-9800-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Forgotten Language of Sentimentality -- ; Pt. 1. The "Language Which May Never Be Forgot" ; 1. Harriet Gould's Book: Description and Provenance. ; 2. "We Shore These Fragments against Our Ruin" -- ; Pt. 2. Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and the American self. ; 3. "And Sister Sing the Song I Love": Circulation of the Self and Other within the Stasis of Lyric. ; 4. The Circulation of the Dead and the Making of the Self in the Novel -- ; Pt. 3. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms: Lydia Sigourney and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ; 5. The Competition of Sentimental Nationalisms. ; 6. The Other American Poets -- ; Pt. 4. Mourning Sentimentality in Reconstruction-Era America: Mark Twain's Nostalgic Realism. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787069903321 |
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Kete Mary Louise
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| Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2000 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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