eBay |
Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism by William M. Morgan (Paperback, 2004)
Be the first to write a review.
OUR TOP PICK
$13.33
+ $10.00 postageQuantity
1 available
Condition
Brand new
Sold by
roxy*books (283410)98.7% Positive Feedback
Delivery
Est. 6 Jul - 12 JulFrom United Kingdom
Returns
7 days money back
Buyer pays return postage
All listings for this product
About this product
Description
- DescriptionIn the decades following the Civil War, rapid modernization eroded and displaced the social structures that had buttressed the antebellum sense of what it meant to live as a virtuous citizen in the United States. Yet, memories of antebellum republicanism, idealism, and sentimentalism lingered, and many late-nineteenth-century intellectuals reformulated this cultural baggage, struggling to imagine new forms of democratic ethics that responded to the divisive society. In Questionable Charity, Morgan depicts the contributions of literary realists to these efforts. Morgan situates his reading of works by William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane, Booker T. Washington, and Edith Wharton in the context of widespread labor strife, turn-of-the-century racism and imperialism, the rise of modern media culture, and the political neutrality of the United States during the early years of World War I. Contesting previous scholarship that pigeon-holed literary realism as either sissy or hyper-masculine, Morgan takes a nuanced approach to a body of work deeply engaged in examining the late-Victorian conscience. In Morgan's study the genre of literary realism becomes a distinctively modern path of inq
- Author BiographyWILLIAM M. MORGAN is a lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.
Key Features
- Author(s)William M. Morgan
- PublisherUniversity Press of New England
- Date of Publication01/07/2004
- LanguageEnglish
- FormatPaperback
- ISBN-101584653884
- ISBN-139781584653882
- SubjectLiterary Criticism
- Series TitleBecoming Modern S.
Publication Data
- Place of PublicationHanover
- Country of PublicationUnited States
- ImprintUniversity Press of New England
- Content NoteIllustrations, ports.
Dimensions
- Weight399 g
- Width152 mm
- Height229 mm
- Spine19 mm
Best-selling in Textbooks
Options, Futures and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull (Mixed media product, 2011)
TRENDING PRICE
- AU $72.97New
Fluid Mechanics by Yunus A. Cengel, John Cimbala (Paperback, 2013)
TRENDING PRICE
- AU $70.93New
Dungeon Master's Guide (Dungeons & Dragons Core Rulebooks) by Wizards of the Coast (Hardback, 2014)
TRENDING PRICE
- AU $56.31New
Pharynx and Larynx Anatomical Chart by Anatomical Chart Co. (Fold-out book or chart, 2000)
TRENDING PRICE
- AU $20.32New
Save on Textbooks
NEW Physics Principles with Applications 7E by Douglas C. Giancoli 9781292057125
AU $74.90Trending at AU $85.57Options, Futures and Other Derivatives 8E by John C. Hull ISBN:9780273759072 NEW
AU $68.00Trending at AU $72.97Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Teaching Developmentally 9E Karen Karp
AU $74.00Trending at AU $85.24Statics and Mechanics of Materials 4E by Hibbeler BRAND NEW
AU $79.95Trending at AU $91.09Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2: Exam Ref 70-410 by Craig...
AU $46.37Trending at AU $48.13NEW 3 Days AUS Calculus 8E James Stewart David Busch 8th Edition (Hardback 2015)
AU $81.00Trending at AU $84.05Schaum's Outline of German Grammar
AU $20.00Trending at AU $28.33
You may also like
This item doesn't belong on this page.
Thanks, we'll look into this.