Screen LibraryPoverty and sickness in modern Europe：narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Continuum,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vi, 278 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781441184818 (hbk.) 1441184813 (hbk.) 9781441110817 (pbk.) 144111081X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | D750 |
| CLC: | D750.7 |
| Call Number: | D750.7/P879 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780-1938 : sources, methods and experiences / Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King -- Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen / Peter Wessel Hansen -- 'Labouring on a bed of sickness' : the material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in male pauper letters / Alannah Tomkins -- '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 / Steven King and Al |