Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells

by Frank Christianson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748625089
• ISBN13: 9780748625086
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"