Reading for reform : the social work of literature in the Progressive Era /

"An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century Reading for Reform rewrites the literary history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America by putting social reform institutions at the center of literary and cultu...

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Main Author: Fisher, Laura R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the politics of proximity
  • Sites of contact: the settlement house
  • The problem with comparison: the working girls' club
  • Correlation and conformity: from the African American college to the Harlem renaissance
  • Forms of mediation: undercover literature
  • Coda: twenty-first century afterlives.