Ebook: Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920
Author: Frank Q. Christianson, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Daniel Bivona, Emily Coit, Suzanne Daly, Monika Elbert, Dorice Elliott, Tanushree Ghosh, Lori Merish
- Tags: Charity in literature., Humanitarianism in literature., Literature and society-Great Britain-History-19th century., Literature and society-Great Britain-History-20th century., Literature and society-United States-History-19th century., Literature and society-United States-History-20th century., Social movements in literature., Social problems in literature.
- Series: Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- City: Bloomington, United States
- Language: English
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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 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.
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