Adrian Wesolowski
Gebundenes Buch

Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility

A Historical-Comparative Study of the British, French, and Polish Examples, c. 1770-1830

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This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures.In its search for the cause of this development, it examines the way in which public images of early philanthropists in different parts of Europe were shaped in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The work draws on a comparison between British prison reformer John Howard, Alsatian pastor and humanitarian Jean-F...