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The author explores the relationship between philanthropy and literary realism in novels by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, and William Dean Howells, and examines how each used the figure of philanthropy both to redefine the sentiments that informed social identity and to refashion their own aesthetic practices.Christianson, Frank is the author of 'Philanthropy in British and American Fiction', published 2007 under ISBN 9780748625086 and ISBN 0748625089.
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