Philanthropy in British and American Fiction

Frank Christianson

Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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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.

ISBN-13
9780748625086
ISBN-10
0748625089
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-11-28
Pages
256
Dimensions
240x164x19
Weight
484