The angel out of the house : philanthropy and gender in nineteenth-century England /

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"In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious. And although many scholars have dismissed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, ©2002.
Colección:Victorian literature and culture series.
Temas:
1800-1899
Women in charitable work > England > History > 19th century.
Women philanthropists > England > History > 19th century.
Women in literature.
Charity in literature.
Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes philanthropes > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Charité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Charity in literature
Women in literature
Women in charitable work
Women philanthropists
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 "An Assured Asylum against Every Evil": Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions for Women
  • 2 "The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Naturalizing Women's Philanthropic Work
  • 3 Hannah More's Heirs: Women Philanthropists and the Challenge of Political Economy
  • 4 "The Communion of Labor" and Lectures to Ladies: A Midcentury Contest between Male Professionals and Female Philanthropists
  • 5 The Female Visitor and the Marriage of Classes in Elizabeth Gaskell's: North and South
  • 6 Educating Women's Desires: The Philanthropic Heroine in the 1860s
  • 7 George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Failure of the Philanthropic Heroine.

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