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From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining
nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through
the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth
Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of
Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected
contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic
Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas,
India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive,
global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange.
Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic
thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of
nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments
around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment
and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of
paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods,
services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of
artistic ownership—all of these, contributors argue, are
essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain
and beyond. Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer
Hayward, Aeron Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia
Smith, and Marlene Tromp.
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining
nineteenth-century culture-particularly literary output-through the
lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century:
Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian
studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected
contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic
Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas,
India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive,
global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange.
Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic
thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of
nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments
around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment
and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of
paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods,
services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of
artistic ownership-all of these, contributors argue, are essential
to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond.
Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer Hayward, Aeron
Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia Smith, and
Marlene Tromp.
British Imperial Fiction, 1870-1940 traces the gradual process by
which the colonial bureaucratic subject was constructed in
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Daniel Bivona's
study offers insightful readings of a number of influential writers
who were involved in promoting the ideology of bureaucratic
self-sacrifice, the most important of whom are Stanley, Kipling and
T. E. Lawrence. He examines how this governing ideology is treated
in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and George Orwell. By
placing the complexities of individual texts in a much larger
historical context, this study makes the original claim that the
colonial bureaucrat played an ambiguous but nonetheless central
role in both pro-imperial and anti-imperial discourse, his own
power relationship with bureaucratic superiors shaping the terms in
which the proper relationship between colonizer and colonized was
debated.
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
British Imperial Fiction, 1870-1940 traces the gradual process by
which the colonial bureaucratic subject was constructed in
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Daniel Bivona's
study offers insightful readings of a number of influential writers
who were involved in promoting the ideology of bureaucratic
self-sacrifice, the most important of whom are Stanley, Kipling and
T. E. Lawrence. He examines how this governing ideology is treated
in the novels of Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and George Orwell. By
placing the complexities of individual texts in a much larger
historical context, this study makes the original claim that the
colonial bureaucrat played an ambiguous but nonetheless central
role in both pro-imperial and anti-imperial discourse, his own
power relationship with bureaucratic superiors shaping the terms in
which the proper relationship between colonizer and colonized was
debated.
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