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Charity & condescension : Victorian literature and the dilemmas of philanthropy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siegel, Daniel, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Charity in literature.
Social values in literature.
Literature and society > England > History > 19th century.
Table of 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.