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Author Scheuermann, Mona.

Title In praise of poverty : Hannah More counters Thomas Paine and the radical threat / Mona Scheuermann
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Conservative Contexts: Joseph Townsend's A Dissertation on the Poor Laws; 3 Radical Contexts: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man; 4 ""The Pen that Might Work Wonders"": The Correspondence of Hannah More; 5 Two Sides of a Question: Hannah More's Village Politics and Josiah Wedgwood's Address to the Young Inhabitants of the Pottery; 6 Social and Political Circumstances: More's Cheap Repository Tracts; 7 Economic Circumstances: More's Cheap Repository Tracts
8 Conclusion: The Power of the Printed Word: Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft on ReadingNotes; Index
Summary In her own time and in ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. Mona Scheuermann argues, however, that More's agenda was not simply to help the poor but to control them, for the upper classes in late eighteenth-century England were terrified that the poor would rise in revolt against Church and King. As much social history as literary study, In Praise of Poverty shows that More's writing to the poor specifically is intended to counter the perceived rabble rousing of Thomas Paine and other radicals active in the
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Subject More, Hannah, 1745-1833 -- Political and social views
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.
SUBJECT More, Hannah, 1745-1833 fast
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 fast
Subject Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Conservatism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Poor -- Great Britain
Poverty -- Great Britain
Radicalism -- Great Britain
Human rights.
Human Rights
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Conservatism
Human rights
Political and social views
Poor
Poverty
Radicalism
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813159676
0813159679
1322597537
9781322597539
0813122228
9780813122229