Charity and Poverty in England, C.1680–1820

Wild and Visionary Schemes

Sarah Lloyd author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:22nd Dec '09

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Charity and Poverty in England, C.1680–1820 cover

This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether discussing proposals for vast inland colonies or cosy firesides, men and women demonstrated that imagination, excitement and experiment were as important as systematic argument in making early-modern social policy. Ceremonies and material objects encapsulated ideas and attracted supporters; energy poured into realising imagined prospects in buildings, streetscapes and landscapes across England and beyond.

Charity and Poverty in England aims to shed fresh light on ideas and lived experience, on cultural worlds in which social relations were unevenly worked out. It analyses the settings in which gentlemen, magistrates, officials, pamphleteers, ladies and neighbours reacted to the poverty of others, and poor people asserted their own beliefs and experiences.

The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of eighteenth-century cultural history and the history of social policy.

ISBN: 9780719078835

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm

Weight: 721g

352 pages