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

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

edited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren, Steven King

Continuum, c2012

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Bibliography: p. [267]-271

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • 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

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