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

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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