Susan M. Ryan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisville.
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction Toward a Cultural History of Good Intentions
1
(24)
Benevolent Violence
25
(21)
Indian Removal and the Contest of National Character
Misgivings
46
(31)
Duplicity and Need in Melville's Late Fiction
The Racial Politics of Self-Reliance
77
(32)
Pedagogies of Emancipation
109
(34)
Charity Begins at Home
143
(20)
Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship
``Save Us from Our Friends''
163
(24)
Free African Americans and the Culture of Benevolence
Epilogue The Afterlife of Benevolent Citizenship
187
(6)
Notes
193
(34)
Index
227
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