02888nam 22006492 450 991045229070332120151002020706.00-7486-5206-X1-281-25212-397866112521200-7486-3074-0(CKB)1000000000485920(EBL)334899(OCoLC)476144947(SSID)ssj0000220791(PQKBManifestationID)11174022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220791(PQKBWorkID)10157205(PQKB)10057117(UkCbUP)CR9780748630745(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055585(MiAaPQ)EBC334899(Au-PeEL)EBL334899(CaPaEBR)ebr10221784(CaONFJC)MIL125212(EXLCZ)99100000000048592020120514d2007|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPhilanthropy in British and American fiction Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells /Frank Christianson[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2007.1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literaturesTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-7486-2508-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.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.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.Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.Philanthropy in British & American FictionEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCharity in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Charity in literature.823.809355Christianson Frank971136UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910452290703321Philanthropy in British and American fiction2458647UNINA