Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature
explores the relationship between British literature and
philanthropy at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, examining the works of E. M. Forster, Rebecca West, W.
B. Yeats, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Vita
Sackville-West. This book considers how writers in the modernist
period drew on the liberal welfare reforms, the adoption of
scientific methods in charity, the Cambridge tradition of public
service, the Irish nationalist movement, and the influence of the
Victorian woman philanthropist in order to advocate for an
individualist art, revolutionize their aesthetics, redefine ideals
of hospitality and beneficence, and affirm the national, social,
and economic liberation of the modern subject. Contrary to popular
interpretations presenting modernism as a break with Victorian
values, Dr. Radeva-Costello argues philanthropic engagements are at
the heart of early twentieth-century literature. The writers
discussed in this book had a sophisticated knowledge of the
philanthropy debates and of their power to transform
twentieth-century notions about how to govern, how to conceive of
national, class, and gender boundaries, and how to market the work
of the professional artist in the real world. In keeping with the
strong archival and historicizing approach of the "New Modernist
Studies" of recent years, this book also analyses the rich
contextual detail of early modernist magazines, contemporary and
archival periodicals, and government publications.
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