Philanthropy in British and American Fiction

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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.

subjects: American fiction,  History and criticism,  Charity in literature,  English fiction,  Realism in literature,  American literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century