Philanthropy In British And American Fiction

Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot And Howells

Frank Christianson

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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.

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Book Details

ISBN: 9780748625086
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: 15 December 2007
Format: Hardback
Language: English
Pages: 256 p.