Writing the lives of the English poor, 1750s to 1830s
"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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press
2019.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
States, people, and the history of social change ; 1. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40765271*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
