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The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks the economic history of American literature, demonstrating that the practices of patronage and corporate-based philanthropy shaped the literary market . Francesca Sawaya examines the importance of patronage and philanthropy on major post-bellum authors' care...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Haney foundation series
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| Summary: |
The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks the economic history of American literature, demonstrating that the practices of patronage and corporate-based philanthropy shaped the literary market . Francesca Sawaya examines the importance of patronage and philanthropy on major post-bellum authors' careers and fiction. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780812290035 |
| Index Number: | PS217 |
| CLC: | I712.06 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. From the Harlem Renaissance -- Introduction. The Difficult Art of Giving -- Chapter 1. American Generosity: Philanthropy in Henry James -- Chapter 2. Livin on My Money : The Politics of Gratitude and Ingratitude in Howells -- Chapter 3. The Gospel of Self : Philanthropy and Political Economy in Mark Twain -- Chapter 4. That Friendship of the Whites : Patronage and Philanthropy in Charles Chesnutt -- Chapter 5. Inexplicable Tangles of Personality : Patronage, Philanthropy, and Progressive Irony in Theodore Dreiser -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |