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Hardcover Charity & Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy Book

ISBN: 0821419919

ISBN13: 9780821419915

Charity & Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy

(Part of the Series in Victorian Studies Series)

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Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how 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...

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