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Introduction: Biblical ideals to secular realities
The "holy poor" and its desecrations:
From the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution
The Bbible and the poor: law and literature
The medieval transformation: the unholy poor in literature and poor law
Sixteenth-century English nationalism: poor law, scripture and Shakespeare
From Shakespeare to Wordsworth: the rediscovery of Biblical love for the poor
Poverty in the West and the failure of ideologies, 1789-1939
Industry, revolution and the poor
Germinal: peasants and literature in England, Russia and France
Jews in Eastern Europe 1861-1917: degradation and recovery
Hunger-artists: from Pushkin to Orwell
Poverty, literature and the environment
The end of extreme poverty in the West: interwar Italy and America.
The "holy poor" and its desecrations:
From the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution
The Bbible and the poor: law and literature
The medieval transformation: the unholy poor in literature and poor law
Sixteenth-century English nationalism: poor law, scripture and Shakespeare
From Shakespeare to Wordsworth: the rediscovery of Biblical love for the poor
Poverty in the West and the failure of ideologies, 1789-1939
Industry, revolution and the poor
Germinal: peasants and literature in England, Russia and France
Jews in Eastern Europe 1861-1917: degradation and recovery
Hunger-artists: from Pushkin to Orwell
Poverty, literature and the environment
The end of extreme poverty in the West: interwar Italy and America.