Philanthropy in British and American fiction : Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells /

During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective histories. This book suggests that this early high capitalism came to serve as the ground for a new kind of cosmopolitanism in the age of literary realism, and argues for the necessity of...

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Main Author: Christianson, Frank
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007.
Series:Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures.
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