Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Telescopic Philanthropy Redeemed -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Philanthropy in the United States and Britain -- 1 The Poverty of Sympathy -- 2 Self-Undermining Philanthropic Impulses: Philanthropy in the Mirror of Narrative -- 3 Education as Violation and Benefit: Doctrinal Debate and the Contest for India's Girls -- 4 Urban Reform and the Plight of the Poor in Women's Journalistic Writing -- 5 Lady Bountiful for the Empire: Upper-Class Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society -- 6 Patrons, Philanthropists, and Professionals: Henry James's Roderick Hudson -- 7 "Witnessing Them Day after Day": Ethical Spectatorship and Liberal Reform in Walter Besant's Children of Gibeon -- 8 "The Orthodox Creed of the Business World"? Philanthropy and Liberal Individualism in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree -- 9 Sustaining Gendered Philanthropy through Transatlantic Friendship: Jane Addams, Henrietta Barnett, and Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Follow the Money -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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.

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