Charity & Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy

by Daniel Siegel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821419919
• ISBN13: 9780821419915
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"