Dayton and Salinger demonstrate that warning out did not equate with casting out, nor was it a product of Yankee stinginess or Puritan aversion to outsiders. In this extraordinarily rich book, Cornelia Dayton and Sharon Salinger re-create colonial Boston during the years of imperial crisis (1760sâ∱770s) through the peripatetic observations of Robert Love, commissioned by the town to âwarn outâ strangers who might require public aid. The community, knit together as one, therefore had an obligation to care for the needy, the displaced, the widowed, orphaned, and ill. $34.95.) The poor, eighteenth-century New Englanders knew, will always be with us. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Robert Loveâs Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston. Most recently, he coedited (with Gerald Kennedy) The American Novel to 1870, volume 5 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English.
THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY and Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity. Bostonians took seriously Winthropâs injunction in âA Modell of Christian Charitieâ (1630) Rather, warning facilitated access to one of the largest pools of public welfare funds available anywhere in the American colonies, or perhaps the Atlantic world.
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
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