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Description: In Praise of Poverty by Mona Scheuermann In her own time and ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. This work argues that Mores agenda was to control the poor, to prevent them rising in revolt against Church and King. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In her own time and in ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. Mona Scheuermann argues, however, that Mores agenda was not simply to help the poor but to control them, for the upper classes in late eighteenth-century England were terrified that the poor would rise in revolt against Church and King.As much social history as literary study, In Praise of Poverty shows that Mores writing to the poor specifically is intended to counter the perceived rabble rousing of Thomas Paine and other radicals active in the 1790s. In fact, her Village Politics was written by request of the Bishop of London as a direct response to Paines Rights of Man. The much larger project of the Cheap Repository Tracts followed, and More was still writing in this vein two decades later. Scheuermann effectively, and perhaps controversially, places More in the context of her periods debate about the poor, proving More to be not a defender of the poor but of the conservative upper-class values she so wholeheartedly espoused. Author Biography Mona Scheuermann, professor of English at Oakton Community College, is the author of a number of studies of the British radical movement of the 1790s and of Her Bread to Earn: Women, Money and Society from Defoe to Austen. She lives in Skokie, Illinois. Review "A useful addition to this neglected area of scholarship." -- History of Political Thought"An intriguing and scholarly reappraisal of a writer to whom too little attention has been paid." -- H-Net Reviews (H-Albion)"Bringing to her study of Hanna More a wide knowledge of the political ferment during the 1790s, Scheuermann has written a work which sees Mores writing in terms of the upper-class reaction against the ideas of the English Jacobins. With considerable irony, Scheuermann suggests that recent attempts to transform Hannah More into an icon for the feminist movement have been misguided." -- Max Novak"Emphatically shows that thinking of her solely in terms of gender distorts our understanding of her and of the broader outlines of eighteenth-century paternalism." -- Age of Johnson"Her exposition of Hannah Mores writings is commendable." -- History"Provides a clear, thorough outline of Mores conservative politics -- a Burkean quietism meant to confute Thomas Paine, William Godwin, and the whole army of revolutionary radicals." -- Choice"Provides us with a much needed corrective to the majority of work that for the past twenty-five years or so has focused almost exclusively on the radical movement that emerged in the wake of the American and French Revolutions." -- East-Central Intelligencer"Scheuermann has read her texts carefully and the student who wishes to be guided through them will find this book provides an admirable course in critical reading." -- Albion"Scheuermanns brilliant study of the long ignored Village Politics and Cheap Repository Tracts is an important contribution to our knowledge of Establishment propaganda in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and Hannah Mores place in the anti-radical movement." -- Paul J. Korshin"Scheuermanns subject matter resonates with current political discourse, especially with regard to welfare reform. In that sense it not only illuminates our understanding of the past, but also provides perspectives relevant to todays social issues." -- Maryland Historical Magazine"This valuable account of Mores writings for the poor... will ensure that her significance as a public spokesman in the trying and dangerous political atmosphere of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is given due attention." -- Womens History Magazine Review Quote "This valuable account of Mores writings for the poor... will ensure that her significance as a public spokesman in the trying and dangerous political atmosphere of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is given due attention.-- Womens History Magazine" -- Womens History Magazine Details ISBN0813122228 Author Mona Scheuermann Short Title IN PRAISE OF POVERTY Pages 272 Language English ISBN-10 0813122228 ISBN-13 9780813122229 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Imprint The University Press of Kentucky Subtitle Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat Place of Publication Lexington Country of Publication United States Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780813122229 UK Release Date 2002-04-26 AU Release Date 2002-04-26 NZ Release Date 2002-04-26 US Release Date 2002-04-26 Publisher The University Press of Kentucky Publication Date 2002-04-26 DEWEY 305.50942 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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