Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary RealismUPNE, 2004 - 251 من الصفحات In 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 inquiry” about a recurrent set of social, political, and moral dilemmas. |
المحتوى
Humanitarian Dilemma | 21 |
African American Pragmatism and Booker T Washingtons | 100 |
Regionalism International Relations and Realist | 146 |
Notes | 207 |
Selected Bibliography | 233 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Addams aesthetic African American American Literary Realism American Literature antebellum argues Barker believe Bois's Booker bourgeois character charisma Charity Chicago citizens citizenship Civil complicity compromised Conrad construction critics culture democratic depicts discourse domestic Dryfoos Duke University Edith Wharton Ellison emerging Ethan Frome ethics ethos experience failure fiction gender Gilded Age Harney Harney's Hazard Howells Howells's human humanitarian ideal ideology imagine intellectual James Jane Addams Johnson/the monster Kaplan King's Men Lawyer Royall Lincoln male manhood manly March masculinity Minister's Charge modern modernist moral Moreover narrative narrator nineteenth-century novel novella paternal political postbellum pragmatic principles problems race racial reality reform residual rhetoric Roosevelt Royall's scene selfhood sense sentimental Sewell Sewell's Slavery social order society Spanish-American War Stephen Crane strenuous suggests Summer sympathy tion Trescott Tuskegee U.S. literary realism utopian values W. E. B. Du Bois Washington Whilomville William Dean Howells Willie York