Culture Philanthropy And The Poor In Late Victorian London

Author : Geoffrey A. C. Ginn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351732802

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Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London by Geoffrey A. C. Ginn Pdf

2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title ******************************** The Late-Victorian cultural mission to London’s slums was a peculiar effort towards social reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds of art exhibitions, concerts of fine music, evening lectures, clubs and socials, debates and excursions mounted for the benefit of impoverished and working-class Londoners. Ginn’s vivid and provocative book captures many of these in detail for the first time. In refreshing our understanding of this obscure but eloquent activism, Ginn approaches cultural philanthropy not simply as a project of class self-interest, nor as fanciful ‘missionary aestheticism.’ Rather, he shows how liberal aspirations towards adult education and civic community can be traced in a number of centres of moralising voluntary effort. Concentrating on Toynbee Hall in Whitechapel, the People’s Palace in Mile End, Red Cross Hall in Southwark and the Bermondsey Settlement, the discussion identifies the common impulses animating practical reformers across these settings. Drawing on new primary research to clarify reformers’ underlying intentions and strategies, Ginn shows how these were shaped by a distinctive diagnosis of urban deprivation and anomie. In rebutting the common view that cultural philanthropy was a crudely paternalistic attempt to impose ‘rational recreation’ on the poor, this volume explores its sources in a liberal-minded social idealism common to both religious and secular conceptions of social welfare in this period. Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London appeals to students and researchers of Victorian culture, moral reform, urbanism, adult education and philanthropy, who will be fascinated by this underrated but lively aspect of the period’s social activism.

Author : Peter Jones,Steven King
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030478391

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Pauper Voices, Public Opinion and Workhouse Reform in Mid-Victorian England by Peter Jones,Steven King Pdf

This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a workhouse reform ‘movement’ in mid- to late-nineteenth-century England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility that a concerted ‘movement’ existed that sought to place pressure on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.

Author : Sarah Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108480055

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Music and Victorian Liberalism by Sarah Collins Pdf

Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.

Author : Kevin A. Morrison
Publisher : Liverpool English Texts and St
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620351

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Walter Besant by Kevin A. Morrison Pdf

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.

Author : Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031215544

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John Ruskin, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Religious Imagination by Sheona Beaumont,Madeleine Emerald Thiele Pdf

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice. The volume unveils the importance of John Ruskin’s writing for today’s audience, and allies it with the dynamism of the Pre-Raphaelite religious imagination. Ruskin’s drawings and daguerreotypes, as well as Pre-Raphaelite paintings, stained glass, and engravings, are shown to be alive with visual theology: artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and Evelyn de Morgan illuminate aspects of faith and aesthetics. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume encourages reflection upon praise, truth, and beauty. The aesthetic conversations between Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites themselves become a form of ‘sacra conversazione’.

Author : William Cornish,Stephen Banks,Charles Mitchell,Paul Mitchell,Rebecca Probert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509931262

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Law and Society in England 1750-1950 by William Cornish,Stephen Banks,Charles Mitchell,Paul Mitchell,Rebecca Probert Pdf

Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.

Author : Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015369

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In Their Own Write by Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore Pdf

Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.

Author : Christina Meyer,Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000542882

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Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century by Christina Meyer,Monika Pietrzak-Franger Pdf

This volume provides engaging accounts with transmedia practices in the long nineteenth century and offers model analyses of Victorian media (e.g., theater, advertising, books, games, newspapers) alongside the technological, economic, and cultural conditions under which they emerged in the Anglophone world. By exploring engagement tactics and forms of audience participation, the book affords insight into the role that social agents – e.g., individual authors, publishing houses, theatre show producers, lithograph companies, toy manufacturers, newspaper syndicates, or advertisers – played in the production, distribution, and consumption of Victorian media. It considers such examples as Sherlock Holmes, Kewpie Dolls, media forms and practices such as cut-outs, popular lectures, telephone conversations or early theater broadcasting, and such authors as Nellie Bly, Mark Twain, and Walter Besant, offering insight into the variety of transmedia practices present in the long nineteenth century. The book brings together methods and theories from comics studies, communication and media studies, English and American studies, narratology and more, and proposes fresh ways to think about transmediality. Though the target audiences are students, teachers, and scholars in the humanities, the book will also resonate with non-academic readers interested in how media contents are produced, disseminated, and consumed, and with what implications.

Author : Rosemary Golding
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030785253

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Music and Moral Management in the Nineteenth-Century English Lunatic Asylum by Rosemary Golding Pdf

This book traces the role played by music within asylums, the participation of staff and patients in musical activity, and the links drawn between music, health, and wellbeing. In the first part of the book, the author draws on a wide range of sources to investigate the debates around moral management, entertainment, and music for patients, as well as the wider context of music and mental health. In the second part, a series of case studies bring to life the characters and contexts involved in asylum music, selected from a range of public and private institutions. From asylum bands to chapel choirs, smoking concerts to orchestras, the rich variety of musical activity presents new perspectives on music in everyday life. Aspects such as employment practices, musicians’ networks and the purchase and maintenance of musical instruments illuminate the ‘business’ of music as part of moral management. As a source of entertainment and occupation, a means of solace and self-control, and as a device for social gatherings and contact with the outside world, the place of music in the asylum offers valuable insight into its uses and meanings in nineteenth-century England.

Author : Gal, John,Köngeter, Stefan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447354253

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The Settlement House Movement Revisited by Gal, John,Köngeter, Stefan Pdf

This book explores the role and impact of the settlement house movement in the global development of social welfare and the social work profession. It traces the transnational history of settlement houses and examines the interconnections between the settlement house movement, other social and professional movements and social research. Looking at how the settlement house movement developed across different national, cultural and social boundaries, this book show that by understanding its impact, we can better understand the wider global development of social policy, social research and the social work profession.

Author : Deborah E. B. Weiner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0719039142

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Architecture and Social Reform in Late-Victorian London by Deborah E. B. Weiner Pdf

Amidst the sea of squalid brick tenements and working-class two-up, two-down houses of late nineteenth-century London, new building types arose, large in scale and bold in their message: the triple-storied Queen Anne board schools, the mock Elizabethan settlement houses, an Arts and Crafts free public art gallery replete with mystic symbolism, and as first conceived, a neo-Byzantine pleasure palace for the working-classes.

Author : Seth Koven
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691128009

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Slumming by Seth Koven Pdf

In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933297

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Protesting about Pauperism by Elizabeth T. Hurren Pdf

A fresh look at the complex question of outdoor poor relief in the nineteenth century.

Author : Kevin Morrison
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516506243

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Victorian Policy and Philosophy by Kevin Morrison Pdf

Author : Robert F. Haggard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313095849

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The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism by Robert F. Haggard Pdf

The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism examines the question of where to locate the ideological break between classical liberalism and the underlying principles of the modern Welfare State. While most historians of 19th century Britain argue that such a shift occurred prior to 1900, Haggard challenges the contention that classical liberalism had been so undermined by this point that the modern Welfare State was largely inevitable. He considers the public discussion of progress, poverty, charity, socialism, and social reform, and he concludes that the vast majority of the Victorian middle and upper classes remained wedded to the tenets of classical liberalism up to the close of the century. In contrast to traditional characterizations, Haggard argues that progress, individualism, and character continued to resonate within Victorian society throughout the late Victorian period. Private philanthropy grew increasingly active as a remedy to urban poverty. The London Socialist movement, the New Unionism, the Independent Labour Party, and the New Liberalism, each proponents of socialistic reforms, found themselves marginalized politically. The key to the social debates of the day was the concept of the deserving versus the undeserving poor. Although the deserving might expect some private or public aid, the undeserving were to be punished for their lack of character. Until this notion was overturned, the Welfare State would remain outside the realm of practical politics.