Charity and Condescension: Victorian Literature and the Dilemmas of Philanthropy

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Charity and Condescension 1 C h a p t e r o n e Help Wanting The Exhaustion of a Dickensian Ideal 37 C h a p t e r t w o Preacher’s Vigil, Landlord’s Watch Charity by the Clock in Adam Bede 75 C h a p t e r t h r e e Why Settle? Samuel Barnett, Octavia Hill, and the London Slums 101 C h a p t e r f o u r Tennyson’s Salvation Army 129 Epilogue 163 Notes 169 Bibliography 195 Index 205 ...