Intellectual philanthropy : the seduction of the masses /
"Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses by Aurélie Vialette examines the practice of philanthropy in modern Spain. Through detailed studies of popular music, collective readings, dramas, working-class manuals, and fiction, Vialette reveals how depictions of urban philanthropic a...
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| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana :
Purdue University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Intellectual Philanthropists and their Weapons of Mass Seduction; Part One: Staging Philanthropy; Chapter One: Musical Philanthropy: The Working-Class Spectacle; Chapter Two: Archiving Philanthropy; Chapter Three: Performing Los filántropos: The Theater as the Medium for a Theorization of Philanthropy; Part Two: Bibliophilanthropy; Chapter Four: The Library Is the City: The Enactment of Democratization Processes in the Centros de Lectura; Chapter Five: Catechism of Industry.
- Part Three: Philanthropy and the Female Working ClassChapter Six: The Potential Not to Be: Domesticity, Economy, and Reading Practices of Women Workers; Chapter Seven: The Art of Dying Well: Philanthropy and the Imitation of Christ as Social Deactivation; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Book; About the Author.