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mission of most of the late-Victorian reformers, philanthropists, and social critics was precisely to infuse a sense of proportion into the sentiment of compassion, to make compassion proportionate to and compatible with the proper ends of social policy.
Dec 15, 2010 · In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be...
Sep 3, 1991 · In this erudite, sweeping, and subtle study of attitudes toward the poor in late Victorian England, formidable intellectual historian Himmelfarb (The New History and the Old, 1987; The Idea of Poverty, 1984, etc.; History/CUNY) shows that she is as gifted with ``moral imagination'' as the philanthropists she so much admires.
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians. G. Himmelfarb. Published 1991. History, Philosophy. View via Publisher. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite. 175 Citations. Citation Type. More Filters. Moralising Poverty: The ‘Undeserving’ Poor in the Public Gaze. S. Romano. Sociology, Political Science. 2017. 13.
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagirlation of the Late Victorians. By Gertrude Himmelfarb (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991. xii plus 475 pp. $30.00)+. With Poverty and Compassiorl, Professor Himmelfarb concludes her remarkable. two-volume assessment of the Victorian responses to poverty.
Poverty and compassion : the moral imagination of the late Victorians Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb Summary : Examines the ways in which poverty was regarded and addressed in late nineteenth-century England
