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Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 /
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Preface: Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain; 1 The Poverty of Sympathy; 2 Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative; 3 Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls; 4 Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing; 5 Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-Class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society; 6 Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson.
- 7 "Witnessing Them Day after Day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon8 "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree; 9 Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett, and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring; Conclusion; Afterword: Follow the Money; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.