Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians

by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Book Overview

In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679741739
• ISBN13: 9780679741732
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Tough Going But Rewarding

This is a very scholarly book about the rise of ideas about poverty and charity in Victorian England. The ideas of unemployment, socialism and other movements were created there. Very interesting but dense.