Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension—once a sign of the power and value of charity—became an emblem of charity’s limitations.
This book argues that, despite Victorian charity’s reputation for idealistic self-assurance, it frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Daniel Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state’s responsibility to its poor.
Daniel Siegel
Charity and Condescension
Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy
Charity and Condescension
Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy
Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780821444078 ● Taille du fichier 1.1 MB ● Maison d’édition Ohio University Press ● Lieu Athens ● Pays US ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5482273 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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