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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  
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
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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
Strom Sharon Hartman  
Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
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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
Hessinger Rodney  
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
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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
Hessinger Rodney  
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
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Seduced, abandoned, and reborn : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger
Seduced, abandoned, and reborn : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 / / Rodney Hessinger
Autore Hessinger Rodney
Edizione [1st ed.]
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
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-9910817090303321
Hessinger Rodney  
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
Materiale a stampa
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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
Kete Mary Louise  
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2000
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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-9910814571503321
Kete Mary Louise  
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2000
Materiale a stampa
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