The Angel Out of the House
Subtitle: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780813920887
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Social history; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Private Welfare Work; Sociology Of Women; Women philanthropists; Social Science; Sociology; English; Literary Criticism; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Philanthropy & Charity; Women in literature; Women's Studies - General; Social Work; 19th century; England; History; Women in charitable work
First sentence: THE 1893 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, held in Chicago and dedicated to showcasing the achievements of the nineteenth century, featured a new and unique section devoted to "women's work."
Description: "In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious.

And although many scholars have dismissed women's volunteer endeavors as merely patriarchal collusion, Elliott argues that the conjunction of novelistic and philanthropic discourse in the works of women writers - among them George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, Hannah More and Anna Jameson - was crucial to the redefinition of gender roles and class relations."--BOOK JACKET.