...Frank Christianson Siegel Daniel , Charity and Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy ( Athens : Ohio UP , 2012 ) , pp. 209, cloth , $39.96 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Condescension, as a form of social interaction...

... is of course the favored expression of knowing, grown-up condescension. Disembodied as a descriptor of a vision that calls for more specific engagement with literary and cultural production across the world and of the work of the translator of Mahasweta Devi's “Draupadi”—that brilliant story about...

... Century, and he is currently completing a book manuscript on charity and condescension. ANNEiTE VAN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is currently working on a book on speculation and the Victorian novel. GENEVIEVE ABRAVANEL...

... emphasis on hybridity, undecidability, ambiguity, and anti-essentialism. Valente's Stoker, that is, begins to look less like, say, H. Rider Haggard, and more like James Joyce seen through the lens of post-structuralism. Happy as I am to see Stoker rescued from the condescension of posterity, I am...

... Rochester's deceit, condescension, and tyranny aligns him with non-English forces of "darkness." The rhetorical association of the abusive Rochester with a sultan or gypsy indicates, Meyer PRITI JOSH1 I DOh4ESTIC ETHNOGRAPHIES argues, Bronte's acceptance...

... physical scaffolding—the myriad “visual, haptic, and kinesthetic resources of the printed book” (167)—but also persistent in its attempts to spark a commensurate awareness in readers. In lieu of the light condescension one might detect in Hayles's recommendation (quoted by Lurz) that we use “electronic...

... in Virginia Woolf's essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown that describes the novel form as “so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive” ( Woolf 9–10 ). The contradiction allows Woolf's assessment of the novel to hover between condescension and reverence; this is, after all, an essay...

..., $60.00. Anyone who has done more than flip through the pages of Victorian criticism of novels will recognize a certain kind of intriguingly ambivalent description, poised halfway between celebration and condescension, attempting to evoke the popularity of Charles Dickens. Witness, as a start...

... the "inside," to cast aside the presumptions of moral condescension and to adopt the perspective of the underclass. Although Wyckoff is unable to com- pletely transform his point of view, his account leads to a bewildering state of cognitive perplexity that suggests both the mutability of point of view...

..., 1994 . Shaw , Harry . Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999 . Siegel , Daniel . “The Failure of Condescension.” Victorian Literature and Culture 33.2 ( 2005 ). Thompson , E.P. The Making of the English Working Class . New York: Vintage...

..., who aim, in her view, to insult and W. cohen | Envy and victorian fiction 299 undermine her. Of her schoolmates, for example, she complains, “I could hardly make them quarrel with me. . . . They were always forgiving me, in their vanity and condescension...

... still, in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Like Mustafa Sa'eed, the cruelty, rudeness, and condescension of Aboulela's protagonist in that story mask the humiliation of the weak and foreclose any possibility of mutual understanding. At other times, some of Aboulela's short stories take...

..., for traveling to Africa in the first place: “My ancestors stole land from the Indians . . . ​so I became heir to a great estate. No, that won’t do. . . . ​What has that got to do with it?” (21). Or does their absence represent a belated awakening to the objectification and condescension so often present...

... Oedipal obsession’’ (379). 410 NOVEL FALL 2014 acknowledge Ware’s ignorance of modern scholarship andthought is both polite and cruel, cruel because it is so polite. Good manners, as always, provide ample cover for condescension. Good manners entail, for Ledsmar and Forbes, an assumption...

... as “a new-sprung child of nature” (187). Even his initial romantic attraction to the countryside, however, is not divested of the prejudices common to the urban bourgeoisie in regard to the rural world. His admiration is adulterated by a slight sense of condescension toward its inhabitants...

... Higgins regards her offer to visit his family as condescension. 21 Shattered abruptly and systematically in this relocation to Milton, the domestic sphere is then undone again in slow motion, as family members drop away one by one: first Mrs. Hale and then Mr. Hale dies; Frederick abandons England...

... of these styles. The Dickensian over- tones present in George's narration in "Of Bladesover House" give way to an en- tirely un-Dickensian class condescension expressed in George's attitude toward his cousins the Frapps and their circle which is never redeemed. The "Shavian interlude," by which Schorer...

... clarity. Lily directs herself against these foundations of Selden’s position and introduces an analysis of the problem of money as an immanent social problem, that is, not one that calls for a detached condescension but instead requires an engaged management: “Don’t you think,” she rejoined...

... life without the condescension of the Evangelical tracts. At least one Victorian reader whose response we can document, and who herself was a young girl, seems to have been especially impressed by the incongruities of Nell's class status: "Nell's be- ing so much above her situation-is what...

... amiable, than towards one another. And such is their Condescension, their Indulgence, and their Beneficence to those below them, that PAUL KELLEHER I THE VIRTUES OF SEXUALITY there is not a Neighbour, a Tenant, or a Servant, who doth not most gratefully bless...