Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-

Publication

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

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Details

Description

x, 270 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In The Angel out of the House Dorice Williams Elliott examines the ways in which novels and other texts that portrayed women performing charitable acts helped to make the inclusion of philanthropic work in the domestic sphere seem natural and obvious. And although many scholars have dismissed women's volunteer endeavors as merely patriarchal collusion, Elliott argues that the conjunction of novelistic and philanthropic discourse in the works of women writers - among them George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell, Hannah More and Anna Jameson - was crucial to the redefinition of gender roles and class relations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Victorian literature and culture series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Victorian literature and culture series.

Alternative Title

philanthropy and gender in 19th century England

Subject

• Women in charitable work > England > History > 19th century
• Women philanthropists > England > History > 19th century
• Women in literature
• Charity in literature

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-260) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 "An Assured Asylum against Every Evil": Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Philanthropic Institutions for Women -- 2 "The Care of the Poor Is Her Profession": Hannah More and Naturalizing Women's Philanthropic Work -- 3 Hannah More's Heirs: Women Philanthropists and the Challenge of Political Economy -- 4 "The Communion of Labor" and Lectures to Ladies: A Midcentury Contest between Male Professionals and Female Philanthropists -- 5 The Female Visitor and the Marriage of Classes in Elizabeth Gaskell's: North and South -- 6 Educating Women's Desires: The Philanthropic Heroine in the 1860s -- 7 George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Failure of the Philanthropic Heroine.

ISBN

0813920884 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001005108

OCLC

47831485

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library