Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women
by
Sarah E. Chinn, Mary Templin, Whitney A. Womack
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...