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UNINA9910452290703321 |
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Autore |
Christianson Frank |
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Titolo |
Philanthropy in British and American fiction : Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells / / Frank Christianson [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
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0-7486-5206-X |
1-281-25212-3 |
9786611252120 |
0-7486-3074-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Charity in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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From sympathy to altruism : the roots of philanthropic discourse -- Dickensian realism and telescopic philanthropy -- Hawthorne's "cold fancy" and the revision of sympathetic exchange -- Altruism's conquest of modern generalisation in George Eliot -- William Dean Howell's "altrurian" aesthetic in the modern marketplace. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne George Eliot and William Dean Howells and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices. |
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