Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920 (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)

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“Offers . . . a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had.” —Edith Wharton ReviewFrom the mid-nineteenth century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early twentieth 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, and women’s work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic institutions left a transactional record of money and materials, philanthropic discourse 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.
Copyright:
2017

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Publisher Quality
Book Size:
266 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780253029881
Related ISBNs:
9780253029553
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
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Copyrighted By:
IUP
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Edited by:
Frank Q. Christianson
Edited by:
Leslee Thorne-Murphy

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