Sarah E Chinn: 2 books
Spectacular Men
Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly...
Our Sisters' Keepers
Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian...