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  1. Pictures of poverty
    the works of George R. Sims and their screen adaptations.
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  John Libbey Publishing, Ltd., Herts, United Kingdom

    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in... more

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    From Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist to George Sims's How the Poor Live, illustrated accounts of poverty were en vogue in Victorian Britain. Poverty was also a popular subject on the screen, whether in dramatic retellings of well-known stories or in 'documentary' photographs taken in the slums. London and its street life were the preferred setting for George Robert Sims's rousing ballads and the numerous magic lantern slide series and silent films based on them. Sims was a popular journalist and dramatist, whose articles, short stories, theatre plays and ballads discussed overcrowding, drunkenness, prostitution and child poverty in dramatic and heroic episodes from the lives and deaths of the poor. Richly illustrated and drawing from many previously unknown sources, Pictures of Poverty is a comprehensive account of the representation of poverty throughout the Victorian period, whether disseminated in newspapers, illustrated books and lectures, presented on the theatre stage or projected on the screen in magic lantern and film performances. Detailed case studies reveal the intermedial context of these popular pictures of poverty and their mobility across genres. With versatile author George R. Sims as the starting point, this study explores the influence of visual media in historical discourses about poverty and the highly controversial role of the Victorian state in poor relief

     

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  2. Erskine Caldwell and the fiction of poverty
    the flesh and the spirit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge [u.a.]

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  3. Les pauvres et la pauvreté dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge
    Author: Larmat, Jean
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Centre d'Études Médiévales, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice

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  4. Poverty of the imagination
    nineteenth-century Russian literature about the poor
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Northwestern Univ. Press, Evanston, Ill.

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  5. Wordsworth's vagrant muse
    poetry, poverty and power
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit

    William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform... more

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    William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform that swept the social, political, and cultural landscape in England during the 1790s. Harrison brilliantly demonstrates the socio-political significance of Wordsworth's poetry as a critical force in the debate over the Poor Laws, offering evidence that nineteenth-century readers recognized both the reactionary and utopian potentials of his work, depending upon their political orientation.

     

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  6. Wealth and poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the Hebrew Proverbs
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Scholars Press, Atlanta, Ga.

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  7. Fat king, lean beggar
    representations of poverty in the age of Shakespeare
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca [u.a.]

    Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds.... more

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    Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom

     

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  8. Discourses of poverty
    social reform and the picaresque novel in early modern Spain
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto [u.a.]

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  9. Common ground
    eighteenth-century English satiric fiction and the poor
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

    Work on both the satire and the fiction of the English eighteenth century has tended to focus on the transition from a patrician culture to a culture dominated by the logic of the market. This book shifts the focus from the struggle between... more

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    Work on both the satire and the fiction of the English eighteenth century has tended to focus on the transition from a patrician culture to a culture dominated by the logic of the market. This book shifts the focus from the struggle between aristocratic and bourgeois values to another set of important, yet usually unremarked, class relations: those between the gentle classes and the poor. The author reads four eighteenth-century satiric novels - Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey, Tobias Smollett's Humphrey Clinker, and Frances Burney's Cecilia - "from below," exploring the ways in which the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally. The author argues that in these novels the mental structures of gentlemen and gentlewomen characters are formed through acts of imitation of and identification with the poor.

     

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  10. Superintending the poor
    charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction, 1770 - 1860
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  Yale Univ. Press, New Haven u.a.

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  11. Discourses of poverty
    social reform and the picaresque novel in early modern Spain
    Published: c1999
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ont.

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  12. Our sisters' keepers
    nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women
    Published: ©2005
    Publisher:  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 081738166X; 9780817381660
    Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
    Subjects: American literature; Poor in literature. Charity in literature. Women and literature / United States / History / 19th century. American literature / 19th century / History and criticism. Literature and society / United; Littérature américaine / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Bienveillance dans la littérature; Littérature et société / États-Unis / Histoire / 19e siècle; Femmes et littérature / États-Unis / Histoire / 19e siècle; Écrits de femmes américains / Histoire et critique; Charité dans la littérature; Pauvreté dans la littérature; Pauvres dans la littérature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Letterkunde; Amerikaans; Vrouwelijke auteurs; Liefdadigheid; Armoede; American literature; American literature / Women authors; Benevolence in literature; Charity in literature; Literature and society; Poor in literature; Poverty in literature; Women and literature; Geschichte; Literatur; Schriftstellerin; American literature; Benevolence in literature; Literature and society; Women and literature; American literature; Charity in literature; Poverty in literature; Poor in literature; Wohlwollen; Frauenliteratur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 299 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index

    Stories of the poorhouse - Karen Tracey -- - Representing the "deserving poor" : the "sentimental seamstress" and the feminization of poverty in antebellum America - Lori Merish -- - "Dedicated to works of beneficence" : charity as a model for a domesticated economy in antebellum women's panic fiction - Mary Templin -- - Reforming women's reform literature : Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel - Whitney A. Womack -- - "The right to be let alone" : Mary Wilkins Freeman and the right to a "private share" - Debra Bernardi -- - Women's charity vs. scientific philanthropy in Sarah Orne Jewett - Monika Elbert -- - "Oh the poor women!" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's motherly benevolence - Jill Bergman -- - Frances Harper's poverty relief mission in the African American community - Terry D. Novak -- - "To reveal the humble immigrant parents to their own children" : immigrant women, their American daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum - Sarah E. Chinn -- - Character's conduct : the democratic habits of Jane Addams's "charitable effort" - James Salazar

    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau?s insistence on an ascetic life. Women in the 19th century, as these essays show, approached issues of benevolence far differently than their male counterparts, consistent

  13. Our sisters' keepers
    nineteenth-century benevolence literature by American women
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of... more

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    Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau?s insistence on an ascetic life. Women in the 19th century, as these essays show, approached issues of benevolence far differently than their male counterparts, consistent

     

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  14. Discourses of poverty
    social reform and the picaresque novel in early modern Spain
    Published: c1999
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ont

    ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Charity, Poverty, and Liminality in the Lazarillo""; ""Lepers and Liminality""; ""Mid-Sixteenth-Century Debates on Poverty: Soto versus Robles""; ""Textual Tensions: The Lazarillo's... more

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    ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""1 Charity, Poverty, and Liminality in the Lazarillo""; ""Lepers and Liminality""; ""Mid-Sixteenth-Century Debates on Poverty: Soto versus Robles""; ""Textual Tensions: The Lazarillo's Ambiguity""; ""2 The Poor in Spain: Confinement and Control""; ""Secularization and Social Containment""; ""Miguel de Giginta's Synchretic Reform Movement""; ""Cristóbal Pérez de Herrera: Beyond Centralized Confinement""; ""3 The Picaresque as Pharmakos"" ""The Road to Flanders: Alonso de Contreras, Estebanillo González, and the End of the Picaresque""""NOTES""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" ""Alemán's Critique of State, González de Cellorigo's Restauración de Estado, and the Doctrine of Free Will""""The Guzmán de Alfarache's Defence of Mercantilism""; ""Rhetoric and the Role of the Reader in the Picaresque""; ""4 Textualizing the Other's Body""; ""Scatology and the Social Body in Quevedo's Buscón""; ""PÃcaras as Prostitutes""; ""Misogyny, Male Voice-Over, and Female Enclosure in the Female Picaresque""; ""5 From PÃcaro to Soldier""; ""The 'Other' and the Military Revolution""; ""PÃcaros' Lives, Soldiers' Tales""

     

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  15. Our sisters' keepers
    nineteenth century benevolence literature by American women
  16. Scènes d'aumône
    misère et poésie au XIXe siècle
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Champion, Paris

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  17. Erskine Caldwell and the fiction of poverty
    the flesh and the spirit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge u.a.

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  18. Salve lucrum ou l'expression de la richesse et de la pauvreté chez Plaute
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Les Belles Lettres, Paris

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2251603190
    RVK Categories: FX 105905
    Series: Université de Franche-Comté <Besançon>: [Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franche-Comté / Centre de Recherches d'Histoire Ancienne] ; 63
    Université de Franche-Comté <Besançon>: Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franche-Comté ; 319
    Subjects: Pauvreté dans la littérature; Richesse dans la littérature; Wirtschaft; Wissen; Comedy; Economics in literature; Poverty in literature; Wealth in literature; Armut; Wortfeld; Latein; Reichtum
    Other subjects: Plaute - Langue; Plautus, Titus Maccius; Plautus, Titus Maccius (v254-v184)
    Scope: 368 S., Ill.
  19. Our sisters' keepers
    nineteenth century benevolence literature by American women
    Contributor: Bergman, Jill (Publisher)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Univ. of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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  20. Erskine Caldwell and the fiction of poverty
    the flesh and the spirit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge [u.a.]

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0807116459; 0807116939
    RVK Categories: HU 3305
    Edition: 1. print.
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: Pauvres dans la littérature; Pauvreté dans la littérature; États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature; Poor in literature; Poverty in literature; Armut <Motiv>; Armut
    Other subjects: Caldwell, Erskine <1903-1987> - Critique et interprétation; Caldwell, Erskine <1903-1987>; Caldwell, Erskine (1903-1987)
    Scope: XIV, 301 S.
  21. Wordsworth's vagrant muse
    poetry, poverty and power
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit

    William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform... more

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    William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform that swept the social, political, and cultural landscape in England during the 1790s. Harrison brilliantly demonstrates the socio-political significance of Wordsworth's poetry as a critical force in the debate over the Poor Laws, offering evidence that nineteenth-century readers recognized both the reactionary and utopian potentials of his work, depending upon their political orientation.

     

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  22. Wealth and poverty in the Instruction of Amenemope and the Hebrew Proverbs
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Scholars Press, Atlanta, Ga.

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  23. Les pauvres et la pauvreté dans la littérature française du Moyen Âge
    Author: Larmat, Jean
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  Centre d'Études Médiévales, Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice

  24. Scènes d'aumône
    misère et poésie au XIXe siècle
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Champion, Paris

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 2745311743
    RVK Categories: IG 4390
    Series: Romantisme et modernités ; 90
    Subjects: 19e siècle; Armoede; Aumône; Charité dans la littérature; Charité; Frans; Gedichten; Pauvreté dans la littérature; Pauvreté; Poésie française - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique; Poésie française; Thème littéraire; Französisch; Lyrik; Charity in literature; French poetry; Poverty in literature; Französisch; Armut <Motiv>; Philanthropie; Lyrik
    Scope: 259 S.
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    Bibliogr. p. [243] - 250. - Notes bibliogr. - Index

  25. Fat king, lean beggar
    representations of poverty in the age of Shakespeare
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca [u.a.]

    Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds.... more

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    Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom

     

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