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In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat by Mona Scheuermann (Hardcover, 2002)

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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 1790s. In fact, her Village Politics was written by request of the Bishop of London as a direct response to Paine's Rights of Man. The much larger project of the Cheap Repository Tracts followed, and More was still writing in this vein two decades later. Scheuermann effectively, and perhaps controversially, places More in the context of her period's debate about the poor, proving More to be not a defender of the poor but of the conservative upper-class values she so wholeheartedly espoused.

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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-13
9780813122229
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96276587

Product Key Features

Book Title
In Praise of Poverty: Hannah more Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat
Author
Mona Scheuermann
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Government, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Mona Scheuermann
Topic Area
Social Organisations
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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