{"product_id":"charity-condescension-daniel-siegel-9780821419915","title":"Charity \u0026 Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharity and Condescension\u003c\/i\u003e explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation. In the literary work of authors like Dickens, Eliot, and Tennyson, and in the writing of reformers like Octavia Hill and Samuel Barnett, condescension-once a sign of the power and value of charity-became an emblem of charity's limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book argues that, despite Victorian charity's reputation for idealistic self-assurance, it frequently doubted its own operations and was driven by creative self-critique. Through sophisticated and original close readings of important Victorian texts, Daniel Siegel shows how these important ideas developed even as England struggled to deal with its growing underclass and an expanding notion of the state's responsibility to its poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Siegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821419919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821419915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Daniel Siegel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059874623743,"sku":"9780821419915","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_48c1ada7-f55a-4d30-bf97-2ebf14faa6f7.jpg?v=1685060825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charity-condescension-daniel-siegel-9780821419915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}