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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension - once a sign of the power and value of charity - became an emblem of charity's limitations. Charity and Condescension argues that, despite its reputation for idealistic self-assurance, Victorian charity frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state's responsibility to its poor."--Project Muse. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Social values in literature.
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Social values in literature. |
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Charity in literature.
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Charity in literature. |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Siegel, Daniel, 1972- Charity and condescension. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011053349 |
| ISBN |
9780821444078 (electronic book) |
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0821444077 (electronic book) |
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