Philanthropy in British and American fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells
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Main Author: Christianson, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2007
Series:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-205) and index
The author 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 211 p.)
ISBN:0748630740
9780748630745

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