Poverty and sickness in modern Europe : narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938

著者

• Gestrich, Andreas
• Hurren, Elizabeth T.
• King, Steven

書誌事項

Poverty and sickness in modern Europe : narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938

edited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren, Steven King

Continuum, c2012

• : pbk
• : hb

注記

Bibliography: p. [267]-271

Includes index

収録内容

• Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780-1938 : Sources, methods and experiences / Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King
• Grief, sickness and demotions 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 Alison Stringer
• Poverty and epidemics : perceptions of the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860s / Beate Althammer
• Living with insanity : narratives of poverty, pauperism and sickness in asylum records 1840-76 / Cathy Smith
• Narratives of poverty in Irish suicides between the Great Famine and the First World War, 1845-1914 / Georgina Laragy
• Stories of care and coercion : narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden, 1860-1920 / Anna Lundberg
• From unemployment to sickness and poverty : the narratives and experiences of the unemployed in Trier and surroundings, 1918-33 / Tamara Stazic- Wendt
• Narratives of ill-health in applicant letters from rural Germany, 1900-30 / Kartin Marx-Jaskulski
• Asking for the privilege to work : applications for a peddling licence (Austria in the 1920s and 1930s) / Sigrid Wadauer
• Appendix : narrative writ large / Richard Dyson, Peter Wessel Hansen, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9781441110817

内容説明

This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.

目次

• 1. Introduction: Narratives and new understanding of the experience of the sick poor Steven King
• 2. Labouring on a bed of sickness: The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in Englishmen's pauper letters 1780-1840 Alannah Tomkins
• 3. Sickness and security: Negotiations over medical relief in Essex pauper letters and overseers' correspondence, 1800-1834 Thomas Sokoll and Tanja Kleinsorge
• 4. "My state of great affliction you will no from my last letter": Rhetorics of sickness in the letters of English, Welsh and Scottish serial letter writers, 1820-70 Steven King
• 5. Poverty and epidemics: Narratives on the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860s Beatte Althammer
• 6. The 'trials of life': Asylum records as pauper and sickness narratives in England 1840-1870 Cathy Smith
• 7. Stories of care and coercion: Narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1860-1920 Anna Lundberg
• 8. Galway workhouse scandals: Pauper bodies, narratives of sickness and the Galway School of Anatomy, Ireland, 1832-1921 Ina Scherder
• Migrant, friendless and unsettled: Sickness narratives from the migrant poor of England, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland 1860-1938 Jean-Paul Lerner
• 10. From long-term unemployment to ill-health and poverty: The narratives of the sick unemployed in Trier and surroundings during the 1920s and 1930s Tamara Stazic
• 11. The European sick poor 1780-1938: A reflection on common experiences, strategies and rhetorics Steven King and Andreas Gestrich.

巻冊次

: hb ISBN 9781441184818

内容説明

This title explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.

目次

• 1. Introduction: Narratives and new understanding of the experience of the sick poor Steven King
• 2. Labouring on a bed of sickness: The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in Englishmen's pauper letters 1780-1840 Alannah Tomkins
• 3. Sickness and security: Negotiations over medical relief in Essex pauper letters and overseers' correspondence, 1800-1834 Thomas Sokoll and Tanja Kleinsorge
• 4. "'My state of great affliction you will no from my last letter": Rhetorics of sickness in the letters of English, Welsh and Scottish serial letter writers, 1820-70 Steven King
• 5. Poverty and epidemics: Narratives on the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860s Beatte Althammer
• 6. The 'trials of life': Asylum records as pauper and sickness narratives in England 1840-1870 Cathy Smith
• 7. Stories of care and coercion: Narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1860-1920 Anna Lundberg
• 8. Galway workhouse scandals: Pauper bodies, narratives of sickness and the Galway School of Anatomy, Ireland, 1832-1921 Ina Scherder
• Migrant, friendless and unsettled: Sickness narratives from the migrant poor of England, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland 1860-1938 Jean-Paul Lerner
• 10. From long-term unemployment to ill-health and poverty: The narratives of the sick unemployed in Trier and surroundings during the 1920s and 1930s Tamara Stazic
• 11. The European sick poor 1780-1938: A reflection on common experiences, strategies and rhetorics Steven King and Andreas Gestrich.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB1001327X
• ISBN:
  • 9781441110817
  • 9781441184818
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 278 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 614.424
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Poverty -- Health aspects -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Poverty -- Health aspects -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Poverty -- Health aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Poor -- Health and hygiene -- Europe -- History -- 20th century