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Author Christianson, Frank.

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

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.
Summary The author 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.
Contents COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Sympathy to Altruism: The Roots of Philanthropic Discourse; Chapter 2. Dickensian Realism and Telescopic Philanthropy; Chapter 3. Hawthorne's 'Cold Fancy' and the Revision of Sympathetic Exchange; Chapter 4. Altruism's Conquest of Modern Generalisation in George Eliot; Chapter 5. William Dean Howells's 'Altrurian' Aesthetic in the Modern Marketplace; Coda; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Charity in literature.
Charity in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Christianson, Frank. Philanthropy in British and American fiction. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 9780748625086 0748625089 (OCoLC)154711298
ISBN 9780748630745 (electronic book)
0748630740 (electronic book)
1281252123
9781281252128
0748625089 (Cloth)
9780748625086 (hardback)
Standard No. 9786611252120