Philanthropy in British and American Fiction
Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells
During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective histories. This book suggests that this early high capitalism came to serve as the ground for a new kind of cosmopolitanism in the age of literary realism, and argues for the necessity of a transnational analysis based upon economic relationships of which people on both sides of the Atlantic were increasingly conscious. The nexus of this exploration of economics, aesthetics and moral philosophy is philanthropy. Pushing beyond reductive debates over the benevolent or mercenary qualities of industrial era philanthropy, the following q…
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Weitere Autoren: Manning, Susan (Hrsg.) / Taylor, Andrew (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-2508-6
- EAN: 9780748625086
- Produktnummer: 22676329
- Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.4 cm x D1.9 cm 484 g
- Gewicht: 484
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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Frank Christianson
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