David Aberbach (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

Literature and Poverty

From the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

Literature and Poverty offers a historical overview of how the perception of poverty has transformed over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780367132736
• ISBN-10: 0367132737
• Artikelnr.: 54587896

Autorenporträt

David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Studies at McGill University, Canada, and has held visiting positions at Harvard (Kennedy Center for International Development) and the London School of Economics (International Development).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Biblical Ideals to Secular Realities Part 1: The 'Holy Poor'
and its Desecrations: From the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution 1. The
Bible and the Poor: law and literature 2. The Medieval Transformation: the
Unholy Poor in Literature and Poor Law 3. Sixteenth-century English
nationalism: Poor Law, Scripture, and Shakespeare 4. From Shakespeare to
Wordsworth: the rediscovery of biblical love for the poor Part 2: Poverty
in the West and the Failure of Ideologies, 1789-1939 5. Industry,
Revolution, and the Poor 6. Germinal: Peasants and Literature in England,
Russia, and France 7. Jews in Eastern Europe 1861-1917: degradation and
recovery 8. Hunger-Artists: from Pushkin to Orwell 9. Poverty, Literature,
and the Environment 10. The End of Extreme Poverty in the West: Interwar
Italy and America Appendix: The 'Holy Poor' in the Literature of Developing
Countries, 1945-