Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (224 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781441184818
,
1441184813
,
9781282133549
,
1282133543
,
9781441163608
Content:
This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. Â What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.
Content:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- LIST OF Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1: Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780-1938: Sources, methods and experiences -- Introduction -- European welfare contexts -- Narratives of/about the poor: Problems of context, method and analysis -- Thinking about the sick poor -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen -- Introduction -- The shamefaced poor and the public poor relief system -- Relief and compassion for the sick shamefaced poor -- Grief and sickness -- Conclusion: Sickness and emotions as a social marker -- Notes -- Chapter 3: 'Labouring on a bed of sickness': The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in male pauper letters -- Introduction -- Men and ill-health -- Male pauper letters -- Depression in male pauper letters -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: 'I have once more taken the Leberty to say as you well know': The development of rhetoric in the letters of the English, Welsh and Scottish sick and poor 1780s-1830s -- Introduction -- Rhetorical and strategic devices -- Development of rhetoric in letter series -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Poverty and epidemics: Perceptions of the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860s -- Introduction -- Aachen and Cologne -- Barcelona -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Living with insanity: Narratives of poverty, pauperism and sickness in asylum records 1840-76 -- Introduction -- Family circumstances and the 'insane' at home -- Institutionalization of the insane -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Narratives of poverty in Irish suicides between the Great Famine and the First World War, 1845-1914 -- Introduction -- Suicide during the Famine.
Note:
Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441110817
Additional Edition:
ISBN 144111081X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282109529
Additional Edition:
Print version Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe : Narratives of the Sick Poor, 1780-1938
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Poverty and sickness in modern Europe London : Continuum, 2012 ISBN 9781441110817
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441184818
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1441184813
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Armut
;
Krankheit
;
Geschichte 1780-1938
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