Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and ContextsPeter Lang, 1996 - 183 էջ Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts is a literary history that shows how the idea of America as the land of capitalist enterprise - where rewards are always commensurate with productivity - came to flourish in our national literature. Covering the colonial period, the early national period, and the Jacksonian period, this study examines a variety of writers, including many of our best early writers of fiction, who chronicle and celebrate - and sometimes condemn - the vision of America as the land of economic opportunity. |
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... Poor to do the Work for small Wages ; these Poor are to be found in Europe , but will not be found in America , till the Lands are all taken up and cultivated , and the Excess of People , who cannot get Land , want Employment.30 ...
... Poor to do the Work for small Wages ; these Poor are to be found in Europe , but will not be found in America , till the Lands are all taken up and cultivated , and the Excess of People , who cannot get Land , want Employment.30 ...
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... poor who would become overly dependent upon charity . For the urban poor , he encouraged a return to the farm , and for those temporarily unable to work , he encouraged a short - term charity that would quickly enable them to go back to ...
... poor who would become overly dependent upon charity . For the urban poor , he encouraged a return to the farm , and for those temporarily unable to work , he encouraged a short - term charity that would quickly enable them to go back to ...
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... poor ; Briggs goes beyond him in suggesting some practical remedies , particularly the workfare - type program described in The Trippings of Tom Pepper which is designed to give the idle poor an alternative to starvation , crime , or ...
... poor ; Briggs goes beyond him in suggesting some practical remedies , particularly the workfare - type program described in The Trippings of Tom Pepper which is designed to give the idle poor an alternative to starvation , crime , or ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
TOWARDS WORK AND WEALTH | 11 |
Ben Franklin and the American Paradigm | 20 |
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Abigail affirms American economic American Literature argues aristocracy Arthur Mervyn attack Autobiography Benjamin Franklin Brackenridge Briggs's Brown Brownson capitalism capitalist Cappon Captain Chainbearer character charity Charles Brockden Brown Charles Frederick Briggs colonists colony common conservative Constantia Cotton Crater Crévecoeur criticism Douglass Dudley Early American economic novels egalitarian Eliot Rosewater equal example father fortune Franklinesque Grimke Gurnet Hammond Harry Franco Hugh Henry Brackenridge idea individual industry interest Irving Jacksonian period James Fenimore Cooper Jamestown Jefferson John Kelroy land legitimate letter Littlepage living Marney master means Modern Chivalry monied class moral narrator obviously opportunity Ormond parasites Pessen Political Thought poor productive labor profit property rights prosperity Puritans reward for productive rich rise Rosewater Rush scene self-interest slaveowners slavery slaves social society socioeconomic speculators Stephen Dudley struggle Teague themes Thousandacres Tom Pepper traditional Trippings truly productive vols Vonnegut wealth Welbeck women Woolston writers York