Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Empire and Welfare in Britain; 2 Yeats, Charity, and the Irish Question; 3 Bloomsbury, the Spirit of Cambridge, and the Patronage of the Arts; 4 Wyndham Lewis, Violence, and the Individual in the Welfare State; 5 Women Writers, Altruism, and Philanthropy in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Conclusion; Index