... relationships, some voluntary and some coercive, including the law, the space of the city, gossip, class, disease, philanthropy, and kinship. These various principles of interconnection are both separate and overlapping: each has its own logic, but each is also capable of connecting the same groups...

...Kate Marshall Sawaya Francesca , The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P , 2014 , pp. 248, Cloth, $55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 In August 2015, Fortune introduced its...

... more questions about the novel's generic status. FRANK CHRISTIANSON I SYMPATHY AND PHILANTHROPY conventions the novel calls into question. Thus, if we are to associate Hawthorne's explanation of sympathy with any genre, it should not be with ei- ther romance or sentimental...

...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...

... Life . Ed. Jennifer Gribble. New York: Penguin, 1998 . Eliot , George . Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings . Ed. A.S. Byatt New York: Penguin, 1990 . Elliott , Dorice . The Angel out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England . Charlottesville: UP...

... is part of a larger project on the relationship between realism and philanthropy in nineteenth-century American and British fiction. MICHAEL DAVIDSON is Professor of American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. JOHN DUVALL is Professor of English and Editor of Modern Fiction...

... , Thomas . “Sentimental Fiction: Ethics, Social Critique, and Philanthropy.” The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780 . Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005 . 572 –601. Lamb , Jonathan . “Political Theories of the Self.” Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680...

... destitution that reflects critically on Mrs. Jellyby's imperial philanthropy directed to natives of the Niger delta—who might be called foreign-made savages. 16 Mrs. Jellyby, much to her family's dismay, disregards her “duties” as a mother and wife and devotes all of her time to “the African project...

... of Chicago P, 1988 . Robbins , Bruce . “Telescopic Philanthropy: Professionalism and Responsibility in Bleak House.” Nation and Narration . Ed. Homi K. Bhabha London: Routledge, 1990 . Rush , Benjamin . An Inquiry into the Effects of Spirituous Liquors on the Human Body, To which...

... contributed. Examining how works from .the 1880s try to counter the emotional enervation that many middle-class philanthropists experienced as they lived and worked in the East End, Bivona and Henkle show how a culturalist philanthropy was employed to sustain the ideal of detachment against...

...," is, along with Allan Woodcourt and George Rouncewell, Dickens's approved agent for "redirect[ing] the civilizing mission to the urban metropolis" (116). Little in this reading of Bleak House, philanthropy, the civilizing mis sion, and "proper" gender roles feels fresh. Ultimately, the striking...

... charities like Invisible Children, celebrity advocacy, and the philanthropy of corporations that also fund politicians who support US violence abroad, Cole summa- rized: ‘‘the White-Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege So...

... dismissal of a facile humanitarianism, an ineffectual counterweight to governmental realpolitik that ignores the political etiology of human misery. Perhaps the most powerful staging of the ineffectuality of rights and political philanthropy is to be found in the first few pages of Nineteen Eighty-Four...

..., which at a later time took the form of the great Methodist revival, and the rise of philanthropy. The persevering industry of the same classes added enormously to the wealth of the nation” (169). This image of an industrious, persevering class fending off both the “brutal” lower classes...

... the egre- gious critique of telescopic philanthropy itself: preserving the critique’s form but hack | bleak house 427 relocating it to the United States and thereby changing its content, these condemn American Jellybys for their indifference...

... . Robbins Bruce . “Telescopic Philanthropy: Professionalism and Responsibility in Bleak House.” Nation and Narration . Ed. Bhabha Homi K. . London : Routledge , 1990 . 213 – 30 . Shklovsky Viktor . Theory of Prose . 1929 . Trans. Sher Benjamin . Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive...

... that such ills are “preventible” even in theory. In Bleak House, where politics is a sham and where “telescopic philanthropy” (49), local pastorship, and familial relations alike prove more destructive than beneficial, all professions of humanitarian sympathy and instances of direct intervention only set...

..., philanthropy, and the recognition of "cul- tural difference," responses to racism revolved around the rejection of racial prejudice and the counter-production of a more acceptable ethnicity-based I would like to thank Michael Berk, Susette Min, and the editors of NOVEL for their helpful...

... is not really "silent" but simply ignorant of what it should be telling us? What if those who revere his memory (including the many beneficiaries of his philanthropy) simply thought his role in the slave trade not worth menti~ning?~What if the "untold story" was to Colston not a story at all? In other...

... of benevolence and philanthropy should not be anxious for the first of these. That cruelty, tyranny, usurpation and avarice should be considered as constituting the character of Britain in any part ofthe world, he will sincerely lament. (61) In Caleb Williams, published the year before...