Charity and condescension
Subtitle: Victorian literature and the dilemmas of philanthropy
By: Daniel Siegel
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780821419915; 9780821444078
Subjects: Charity in literature; Literature and society; English fiction; History and criticism; Social values in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: charity and condescension; title: Help wanting: the exhaustion of a Dickensian ideal; title: Preacher's vigil, landlord's watch: charity by the clock in Adam Bede; title: Why settle? Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, and the London slums; title: Tennyson's Salvation army; title: Epilogue.