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Oct 27, 1992 · Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians Paperback – October 27, 1992 by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Author) 4.8 out of 5 stars 7
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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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Dec 15, 2010 · Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians - Kindle edition by Himmelfarb, Gertrude. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians.
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POVERTY AND COMPASSION: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians User Review - Kirkus. 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 ...
Compassion, Kant said, has “no proportion in it”; a suffering child fills our heart with sorrow, while we are indifferent to the news of a terrible battle.7 The driving 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
A VICTORIAN MIND: GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, POVERTY, AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION THE PUBLICATION OF POVERTY AND COMPASSION: THE MORAL IMAGINATION OF THE Late Victorians is the culmination of a major endeavor in intellectual history- one that has spanned the 1980s, and is, to use a Germanism of which Beatrice Webb was fond,
About Poverty and Compassion. 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 they radical or conservative.
