Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Book Overview

In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679401199
• ISBN13: 9780679401193
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 475 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Tough Going But Rewarding

This is a very scholarly book about the rise of ideas about poverty and charity in Victorian England. The ideas of unemployment, socialism and other movements were created there. Very interesting but dense.