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 /

"In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of 'the middle class.' Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entreprene...

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Main Author: Strom, Sharon Hartman (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Subjects:
Middle class > United States > History > 19th century.
Middle class > United States > Biography.
Self > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Self > Economic aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Ambition > 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.
United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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