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Funding Philanthropy : Dr Bernardo's Metaphors, Narratives and Spectacles.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781781384329
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Funding PhilanthropyOnline resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One: Metaphor -- 1. The 'Open Door': Metaphor and Promoting the Barnardo Brand -- Part Two : Narrative -- 2. Narrative: Raising Affect, Raising Funds -- 3. Dr Barnardo's 'Young Helpers': Agency, Philanthropy and Juvenile Periodicals -- 4. The 'Queen's Shades' and a 'Gothicized' London -- Part Three : Spectacle -- 5. Barnardo's Bazaars: Desire and Restraint, Consumption and Self-Denial -- 6. 'Panoramas' and 'Living Pictures': Dr Barnardo's Annual Meetings -- Afterword -- References -- Index.
Summary: Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo's practices as the leading Victorian figure in child rescue in London, particularly focusing on devices associated with story-telling and public spectacle that facilitated evoking emotional responses that would lead to active support from constituents across boundaries of age, class or race.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part One: Metaphor -- 1. The 'Open Door': Metaphor and Promoting the Barnardo Brand -- Part Two : Narrative -- 2. Narrative: Raising Affect, Raising Funds -- 3. Dr Barnardo's 'Young Helpers': Agency, Philanthropy and Juvenile Periodicals -- 4. The 'Queen's Shades' and a 'Gothicized' London -- Part Three : Spectacle -- 5. Barnardo's Bazaars: Desire and Restraint, Consumption and Self-Denial -- 6. 'Panoramas' and 'Living Pictures': Dr Barnardo's Annual Meetings -- Afterword -- References -- Index.

Funding Philanthropy investigates Dr Barnardo's practices as the leading Victorian figure in child rescue in London, particularly focusing on devices associated with story-telling and public spectacle that facilitated evoking emotional responses that would lead to active support from constituents across boundaries of age, class or race.

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