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Author : N.F. Pope
Release : 1978-06-17
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Dickens and Charity by : N.F. Pope
Download or read book Dickens and Charity written by N.F. Pope. This book was released on 1978-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norris Pope
Release : 1978
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 783/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dickens and Charity by : Norris Pope
Download or read book Dickens and Charity written by Norris Pope. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Christianson
Release : 2007-11-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Philanthropy in British and American Fiction by : Frank Christianson
Download or read book Philanthropy in British and American Fiction written by Frank Christianson. This book was released on 2007-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective histories. This book suggests that this early high capitalism came to serve as the ground for a new kind of cosmopolitanism in the age of literary realism, and argues for the necessity of a transnational analysis based upon economic relationships of which people on both sides of the Atlantic were increasingly conscious. The nexus of this exploration of economics, aesthetics and moral philosophy is philanthropy. Pushing beyond reductive debates over the benevolent or mercenary qualities of industrial era philanthropy, the following questions are addressed: what form and function does philanthropy assume in British and American fiction respectively? What are the rhetorical components of a discourse of philanthropy and in which cultural domains did it operate? How was philanthropy practiced and represented in a period marked by self-interest and rational calculation? 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. The heart of this study consists of two comparative sections: the first contains chapters on contemporaries Hawthorne and Dickens; the second contains chapters on second-generation realists Eliot and Howells in order to examine the altruistic imagination at a culminating point in the history of literary realism.
Author : Edward F. Payne
Release : 2013-10
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Book Synopsis The Charity of Charles Dickens by : Edward F. Payne
Download or read book The Charity of Charles Dickens written by Edward F. Payne. This book was released on 2013-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Author : Eileen Gillooly
Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Dickens by : Eileen Gillooly
Download or read book Contemporary Dickens written by Eileen Gillooly. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David, Contemporary Dickens is a collection of essays that presents some of the most intriguing work being undertaken in Dickens studies today. Through an emphasis on the nineteenth-century origins of our current critical preoccupations and ways of knowing, these essays reveal Dickens to be our contemporary. The contributors argue that such issues as gender and sexuality, environmentalism, and the construction of national identity were frequently explored and sometimes problematically resolved by Dickens himself. They also illuminate the importance of Dickens's place in our current reassessment of critical methodologies. Drawing freely upon a variety of reading strategies (materialist, deconstructive, new historical, psychoanalytic, and feminist), the essays disclose new aspects of Dickens's engagements with a number of Victorian concerns--moral philosophy, the psychology of the emotions, and life writing among them--that have once again emerged as significant objects of study in early-twenty-first century criticism. Looking at such familiar topics from fresh perspectives, Contemporary Dickens is an original and challenging contribution to Dickens studies in particular and Victorian criticism in general. Contemporary Dickens will appeal to general readers and students of Victorian culture, as well as specialists in nineteenth-century literature, cultural studies, literary formalism, psychology, and gender studies.
