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"Thomas Dixon has written a remarkable history... His superb volume...is the single best study of the emergence of new moral and social terminology in the Victorian age... Imaginatively researched, carefully argued and finely written, this is a volume which scholars from a variety of disciplines will be able to engage, contest and build upon." - Frank M. Turner, British Journal for the History of Science "The substance of the book is comprehensively researched...He brings it together cogently enough to tell a gripping story. The result is an effective and important contribution to our understanding of Victorian thought" - John Skorupski, Times Literary Supplement "The Invention of Altruism is extremely
useful, illuminating not just the spread of the terminology of altruism, its paradoxes and ambiguities and the several concepts understood by different groups to be contained within it, but also the broader intellectual contexts of the late-nineteenth century." - Mark Blacklock, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century "The Invention of Altruism is ambitious in scope, and full of suggestive discussion of important themes." - Jose Harris, London Review of Books "Dixon's comprehensive study is to be welcomed as a major contribution to our understanding of the subject... The structure of the book is elegantly simple, and makes what might have been an intricate work highly readable and surprisingly easily navigable." -
Professor Stuart Jones, Reviews in History "Well-argued and compelling" - Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos, American Historical Review "this is certainly a book from which literary critics, as well as practitioners of a broad range of disciplines pertaining to intellectual history, will benefit greatly, both for the new light it casts on a key term in Victorian moral philosophy and its subtle and stimulating treatment of related historiographic issues" - Gowan Dawson, Intellectual History Review
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