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008			180919s2019 quc ob 001 0 eng
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050	0	4	_aHC260 _b.W758 2019
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKing, Steven, _d1966- _e1
245	1	0	_aWriting the lives of the English poor, 1750s-1830s /Steven King.
260			_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aStates, people, and the history of social change ; _v1
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505	0	0	_aWelfare, power, and agency -- _tPoints of navigation -- _tMundane articles -- _tOfficial receptions -- _tFinding words -- _tHistory and fiction -- _tThe rhetorical spectrum -- _tAnchoring rhetoric -- _tThe rhetoric of character -- _tThe rhetoric of dignity -- _tRhetorics of life-cycle and gender -- _tThe pauper self -- _tProcess and agency reconsidered.
520	0		_a"Tracing the experiences of poor people through their own words, Writing the Lives of the English Poor offers a history of the Old Poor Law from below. Steven King shifts attention from traditional approaches to welfare history, broadly "who got what, when," and reconstructs the process by which the poor claimed, extended or defended their parochial allowances. Colorful stories and histories of ordinary writers, their advocates and the officials with whom they engaged are distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled and stand at the heart of this rethinking of English welfare history. A telling of these stories suggests that advocates, officials and the poor shared a common linguistic register and understanding of how far welfare decisions could be contested and negotiated. All participants in the tri-partite epistolary world of the parish colluded in the production of fictive accounts of suffering and this tolerance of fiction stood at the heart of the longevity of the Old Poor Law. Ranging the rhetorical infrastructure of pauper letters, Steven King constructs the relief decisions reported in end-of-process accounts as the outcome of a complex train of claims-making and contestation. At a time when the western European welfare model is under sustained threat, this book takes us back to its deepest roots and argues that the signature of a strong welfare system is that rules on entitlement must be, and must be seen to be, malleable."-- _cProvided by publisher
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650		0	_aPoor _zEngland _vCorrespondence.
650		0	_aPoor _zEngland _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aPoor _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _zEngland _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aPublic welfare _zEngland _xHistory _y19th century.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1998923&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell