{"product_id":"charity-and-condescension-victorian-literature-and-the-dilemmas-of-philanthropy-paperback-softback-9780821425190","title":"Charity and Condescension; Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780821425190","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCharity and Condescension\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVictorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDaniel Siegel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821425190, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 February 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.382 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Redeeming the Mrs. Jellybys of victorian fiction as agents of liberation may be a tall order; but Siegel certainly succeeds wonderfully here in demanding, and offering, reconsideration of our own too-simple condescension toward Victorian condescension.\" (Victorian Studies) \u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharity and Condescension\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e gives literary critics that which we always hope for in a\u003cbr\u003e new book: an entirely new way of seeing texts that we all know and teach.”\u003c\/p\u003e - Suzanne Daly, University of Massachusetts Amherst \"Smart and original readings.\" (Victoriographies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharity 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 of the power and value of charity—became an emblem of charity's limitations.\u003cbr\u003e This book argues that, despite Victorian charity's reputation for idealistic self-assurance, it frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Daniel Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state's responsibility to its poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574555013400,"sku":"9780821425190","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/charity-and-condescension-victorian-literature-and-the-dilemmas-of-philanthropy-paperback-softback-9780821425190","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}