Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America
(2023)
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Pethers, M. (in press). Encyclopaedias, Information Overload, and the Intellectual Division of Labor in Early America. Early American Studies,
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The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel (2023)
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Pethers, M. (2023). The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel. J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists, 11(1), 91-119. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2023.a909297From Jacob Riis to Michael Harrington, observers of American poverty have often focused, in literal and metaphorical ways, on the faces of the economically dispossessed, finding in them a means to generate emotional responses that are more personaliz... Read More about The Face of Poverty : Physiognomics, Social Mobility, and the Politics of Recognition in the Early Nineteenth-Century American Novel.