Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 - (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels, letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined the public sector.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty, urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic <i>institutions</i> left a transactional record of money and materials, philanthropic <i>discourse</i> yielded a rich corpus of writing that represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to 1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels, letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined the public sector. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><i>Philanthropic Discourse</i> offers the nineteenth-century literary historian a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had in directing the action and debate.</p>-- "Edith Wharton Review"<br><br><p>This rich collection of essays develops our understanding of the Anglo-American philanthropic discourse in multiple directions. . . . It will be warmly appreciated by literary scholars and historians alike. </p></p>-- "British Assn for Victorian Studies Newsletter"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Frank Q. Christianson is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He is author of <i>Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells</i>, and Senior Editor of The Papers of William F. Cody.</p><p>Leslee Thorne-Murphy is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University.</p>
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