LEADER 02888nam 22006492 450 001 9910452290703321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a0-7486-5206-X 010 $a1-281-25212-3 010 $a9786611252120 010 $a0-7486-3074-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000485920 035 $a(EBL)334899 035 $a(OCoLC)476144947 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000220791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174022 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000220791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157205 035 $a(PQKB)10057117 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748630745 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055585 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC334899 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL334899 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10221784 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL125212 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000485920 100 $a20120514d2007|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPhilanthropy in British and American fiction $eDickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells /$fFrank Christianson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aEdinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-7486-2508-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index. 327 $aFrom 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. 330 $aExplores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne George Eliot and William Dean Howells and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices. 410 0$aEdinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures. 517 3 $aPhilanthropy in British & American Fiction 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCharity in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCharity in literature. 676 $a823.809355 700 $aChristianson$b Frank$0971136 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452290703321 996 $aPhilanthropy in British and American fiction$92458647 997 $aUNINA