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Philanthropy in British and American fiction : Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells / / Frank Christianson



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Autore: Christianson Frank Visualizza persona
Titolo: Philanthropy in British and American fiction : Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells / / Frank Christianson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 823.809355
Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
Charity in literature
Classificazione: HL 1101
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Philanthropy in British and American fiction  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-7486-5206-X
1-281-25212-3
9786611252120
0-7486-3074-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825242403321
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Serie: Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.