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Writing the lives of the English poor, 1750s-1830s / Steven King.

"Tracing the experiences of poor people through their own words, Writing the Lives of the English Poor offers a history of the Old Poor Law from below. Steven King shifts attention from traditional approaches to welfare history, broadly "who got what, when," and reconstructs the proce...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: King, Steven, 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:States, people, and the history of social change ; 1.
Subjects:
Poor > England > Correspondence.
Poor > England > History > 18th century.
Poor > England > History > 19th century.
Public welfare > England > History > 18th century.
Public welfare > England > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social policy.
England > Social conditions > 18th century.
England > Social conditions > 19th century.
Poor.
Public welfare.
Social conditions.
Social policy.
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Table of Contents:
  • Welfare, power, and agency
  • Points of navigation
  • Mundane articles
  • Official receptions
  • Finding words
  • History and fiction
  • The rhetorical spectrum
  • Anchoring rhetoric
  • The rhetoric of character
  • The rhetoric of dignity
  • Rhetorics of life-cycle and gender
  • The pauper self
  • Process and agency reconsidered.

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