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Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London (Paperback)
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Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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******************************** The Late-Victorian cultural
mission to London's slums was a peculiar effort towards social
reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The
philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds
of art exhibitions, concerts of fine music, evening lectures, clubs
and socials, debates and excursions mounted for the benefit of
impoverished and working-class Londoners. Ginn's vivid and
provocative book captures many of these in detail for the first
time. In refreshing our understanding of this obscure but eloquent
activism, Ginn approaches cultural philanthropy not simply as a
project of class self-interest, nor as fanciful 'missionary
aestheticism.' Rather, he shows how liberal aspirations towards
adult education and civic community can be traced in a number of
centres of moralising voluntary effort. Concentrating on Toynbee
Hall in Whitechapel, the People's Palace in Mile End, Red Cross
Hall in Southwark and the Bermondsey Settlement, the discussion
identifies the common impulses animating practical reformers across
these settings. Drawing on new primary research to clarify
reformers' underlying intentions and strategies, Ginn shows how
these were shaped by a distinctive diagnosis of urban deprivation
and anomie. In rebutting the common view that cultural philanthropy
was a crudely paternalistic attempt to impose 'rational recreation'
on the poor, this volume explores its sources in a liberal-minded
social idealism common to both religious and secular conceptions of
social welfare in this period. Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor
in Late-Victorian London appeals to students and researchers of
Victorian culture, moral reform, urbanism, adult education and
philanthropy, who will be fascinated by this underrated but lively
aspect of the period's social activism.
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