The angel out of the house : philanthropy and gender in nineteenth-century England / Dorice Williams Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series.

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in charitable work--England--History--19th century.

Women in charitable work.

Women philanthropists--England--History--19th century.

Women philanthropists.

Women in literature.

Charity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a fascinating study of how literary works contribute to cultural and historical change, Elliott's exploration of philanthropic discourse in nineteenth-century literature demonstrates just how essential that forum was in changing accepted definitions of women and social relations.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: ''An Assured Asylum against Every Evil''

Chapter 2: ''The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession''

Chapter 3: Hannah More's Heirs

Chapter 4: ''The Communion of Labor'' and Lectures to Ladies

Chapter 5: The Female Visitor and the Marriage of Classes in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

Chapter 6: Educating Women's Desires

Chapter 7: George Eliot's Middlemarch

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585332

9781280490101

1280490101

9780813922010

0813922011

OCLC:

759159956