In praise of poverty : Hannah More counters Thomas Paine and the radical threat / Mona Scheuermann.

Author/creator Scheuermann, Mona
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002.
Descriptionxiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Conservative contexts: Joseph Townsend's dissertation on the poor laws -- Radical contexts: Thomas Paine's Rights of man -- "The pen that might work wonders": the correspondence of Hannah More -- Two sides of a question: Hannah More's village politics and Josiah Wedgwood's address to the young inhabitants of the pottery -- Social and political circumstances: More's cheap repository tracts -- Economic circumstances : More's cheap repository tracts -- Conclusion. the power of the printed word: Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft on reading.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.
LCCN 2001003181
ISBN0813122228 (acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR3605.M6 S34 2002 ✔ Available Place Hold