Literature and poverty from the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War / David Aberbach.
| Author/creator | Aberbach, David, 1953- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Biblical ideals to secular realities -- The "holy poor" and its desecrations: -- From the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution -- The Bbible and the poor: law and literature -- The medieval transformation: the unholy poor in literature and poor law -- Sixteenth-century English nationalism: poor law, scripture and Shakespeare -- From Shakespeare to Wordsworth: the rediscovery of Biblical love for the poor -- Poverty in the West and the failure of ideologies, 1789-1939 -- Industry, revolution and the poor -- Germinal: peasants and literature in England, Russia and France -- Jews in Eastern Europe 1861-1917: degradation and recovery -- Hunger-artists: from Pushkin to Orwell -- Poverty, literature and the environment -- The end of extreme poverty in the West: interwar Italy and America. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018042228 |
| ISBN | 9780367112486 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780367132736 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |