Philanthropy in British and American Fiction
Subtitle: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: December 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780748625086
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; 19th Century American Literature; 19th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; USA; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: 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.