Charity & Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy by Daniel Siegel

Charity & Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy

Series in Victorian Studies

Daniel Siegel

209 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary
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Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers the ways in which the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to constr...

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