TY - BOOK AU - Siegel,Daniel ED - Project Muse. TI - Charity and condescension: Victorian literature and the dilemmas of philanthropy SN - 9780821444078 AV - PR830.C475 S53 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Athens PB - Ohio University Press KW - Literature and society KW - England KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social values in literature KW - Charity in literature KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: charity and condescension -- Help wanting: the exhaustion of a Dickensian ideal -- Preacher's vigil, landlord's watch: charity by the clock in Adam Bede -- Why settle? Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, and the London slums -- Tennyson's Salvation army -- Epilogue UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780821444078/ ER -