"No heart for human pity": The US-Mexican war, depersonalization, and power in E.D.E.N. Southworth and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

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Two novels written after the US-Mexican war are highlighted, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand or Capitola the Madcap that first serialized in 1859 and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's the Squatter and the Don published in 1885. For Southworth and Ruiz de Burton this war represents a time which seems inaccessible by the end of the 19th century and they use their narratives to romanticize and reclaim the past and indulge in nostalgia, opposing the growth of soulless corporatism.

Authors, Writers, Works, Critical essay, The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the Madcap (Novel), The Squatter and the Don (Novel), Sociopolitical literature, Southworth, Emma D. E. N., Burton, Maria Amparo Ruiz de

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John Lovejoy Elliott and the social settlement movement

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John Lovejoy Elliott, founder and head worker of the Hudson Guild in New York City was a prominent and influential man amongst reformers in the social settlements. Elliott put all his energies into creating opportunities for his immigrant neighbors and thus created and put into practice a settlement house that best addressed the needs of immigrants and most helped the immigrant underclass achieve some independence and political power, even beyond the Guild walls.

Management dynamics, Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Practice, Guilds, Elliott, John Lovejoy

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Daguerreotyping the national soul: the portraits of Southworth and Hawes, 1843-1860

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Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes created portraits of their middle class clients which masked the very reality it was seeking to reveal. There was a national preoccupation with reinventing oneself by finding the inner most self and daguerreotypes were supposed to help the process. However, as the analysis of some of the figures of the period shows,posing removed all sincerity and spontaneity from these pictures.

History, Photographers, Daguerreotype, Daguerreotypes, Hawes, Josiah, Southworth, Albert

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