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Eiselein, Gregory. "Humanitarian Works: Writing, Reform, and Eccentric Benevolence in the Civil War Era," Department of English, University of Iowa, May 1993. Advisor: Ed Folsom (8, 9, 2)
During the Civil War era, a crisis erupted in philanthropy, a crisis that dramatically changed humanitarian discourses and practices and temporarily cleared a space for the formation of “eccentric” modes of benevolent work. During this turbulent flux, writers and activists like Harriet Wilson, John Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, and Henry David Thoreau reformulated traditional approaches to philanthropic work by imagining a less coercive relationship between humanitarians and those helped. Although they stood apart from mainstream philanthropic culture, these writers and activists relied upon, even as they reutilized, familiar cultural mainstays to articulate their eccentric approaches to humanitarian work.
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