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Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation.

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“Redeeming the Mrs. Jellybys of victorian fiction as agents of liberation may be a tall order; but Siegel certainly succeeds wonderfully here in demanding, and offering, reconsideration of our own too-simple condescension toward Victorian condescension.” * Victorian Studies *

“Charity and Condescension gives literary critics that which we always hope for in a
new book: an entirely new way of seeing texts that we all know and teach.”

-- Suzanne Daly, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Smart and original readings.” * Victoriographies *

Charity and Condescension Victorian Literature

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      Publisher: Ohio University Press
      Publication Date: 14/02/2023
      ISBN13: 9780821425190, 978-0821425190
      ISBN10: 0821425196
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Charity and Condescension explores how condescension, a traditional English virtue, went sour in the nineteenth century, and considers how the failure of condescension influenced Victorian efforts to reform philanthropy and to construct new narrative models of social conciliation.

      Trade Review
      “Redeeming the Mrs. Jellybys of victorian fiction as agents of liberation may be a tall order; but Siegel certainly succeeds wonderfully here in demanding, and offering, reconsideration of our own too-simple condescension toward Victorian condescension.” * Victorian Studies *

      “Charity and Condescension gives literary critics that which we always hope for in a
      new book: an entirely new way of seeing texts that we all know and teach.”

      -- Suzanne Daly, University of Massachusetts Amherst
      “Smart and original readings.” * Victoriographies *

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