Charity and condescension : Victorian literature and the dilemmas of philanthropy /

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"Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Siegel, Daniel, 1972-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Sujets:
1800-1899
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Social values in literature.
Charity in literature.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Littérature et société > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Valeurs sociales dans la littérature.
Charité dans la littérature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Charity in literature
English fiction
Literature and society
Social values in literature
England
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: charity and condescension
  • Help wanting: the exhaustion of a Dickensian ideal
  • Preacher's vigil, landlord's watch: charity by the clock in Adam Bede
  • Why settle? Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, and the London slums
  • Tennyson's Salvation army
  • Epilogue.

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