Abstract
Although he was a major force in fin-de-siecle cultural philanthropy in both North America and Britain, Charles Godfrey Leland is today known mainly through Occult websites on the Internet. This essay retrieves his research on the gypsies, revealing an unexplored source of Victorian philanthropy, and scrutinizes it from the perspectives of disciplines different from his own, philology: history, demography, ethnic studies, ethics, and politics. The essay is in four parts: I. Victorian Cultural Philanthropy: People Making People, and Some People Making Things II. Gypsy Lorists: The Non-Christian Roots of Philanthropy, III. Philanthropy's Other: The Persecution of the Gypsies, IV. Interdisciplinarity as Collectivity.
Highlights
He was a major force in fin de siècle cultural philanthropy in both North America and Britain, Charles Godfrey Leland is today known mainly through Occult websites on the Internet
This essay retrieves his research on the gypsies, revealing an unexplored source of Victorian philanthropy, and scrutinizes it form the perspectives of disciplines different from his own, philology: history, demography, ethnic studies, ethics, and politics
Others represented a mixture of charity and patronage, and their only effect was to multiply the production of amateur incompetency... on the whole they were of little value either as productive or as educational agencies.”[5]. Mackail’s terms suggest a socialist craftsman’s indictment of individualistic voluntarism: caprice, individuals, amateur, incompetence, value, productive, agency
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He was a major force in fin de siècle cultural philanthropy in both North America and Britain, Charles Godfrey Leland is today known mainly through Occult websites on the Internet.
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