1st Edition

Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature

By Milena Radeva-Costello Copyright 2019
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Philanthropy and Early Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the relationship between British literature and philanthropy at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the works of E. M. Forster, Rebecca West, W. B. Yeats, Roger Fry, Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Vita Sackville-West. This book considers how writers in the modernist period drew on the liberal... Read more
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Biography

Milena Radeva-Costello earned her advanced degree in English from Sofia University in Bulgaria, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests center on the theme of philanthropy in British and American Modernism, and she has published articles on philanthropy in the works of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. She currently teaches at Providence College.