Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From Sympathy to Altruism: The Roots of Philanthropic Discourse
- 2 Dickensian Realism and Telescopic Philanthropy
- 3 Hawthorne's ‘Cold Fancy’ and the Revision of Sympathetic Exchange
- 4 Altruism's Conquest of Modern Generalisation in George Eliot
- 5 William Dean Howells's ‘Altrurian’ Aesthetic in the Modern Marketplace
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From Sympathy to Altruism: The Roots of Philanthropic Discourse
- 2 Dickensian Realism and Telescopic Philanthropy
- 3 Hawthorne's ‘Cold Fancy’ and the Revision of Sympathetic Exchange
- 4 Altruism's Conquest of Modern Generalisation in George Eliot
- 5 William Dean Howells's ‘Altrurian’ Aesthetic in the Modern Marketplace
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Philanthropy in British and American FictionDickens Hawthorne Eliot and Howells, pp. 206 - 211Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007