Philanthropic Discourse In Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 (Philanthropic And Nonprofit Studies)

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain -- 1 The Poverty of Sympathy -- 2 Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative -- 3 Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls -- 4 Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing -- 5 Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-Class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society -- 6 Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson -- 7 "Witnessing Them Day after Day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon -- 8 "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree -- 9 Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett, and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Follow the Money -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z

• | Author: Frank Christianson, Leslee Thorne-Murphy
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0253029554
• | ISBN-13: 9780253029553