Literature and Poverty: From the Hebrew Bible to the Second World War

by David Aberbach

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Literature and Poverty
offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor.　 Part I of the book, from the Hebrew Bible to the French Revolution, provides essential background information. It introduces the Scriptural ideal of the 'holy poor' and the process by which biblical love of the poor came to be contested and undermined in European legislation and public opinion as capitalism grew...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0367112485

ISBN13:9780367112486

Release Date:February 2019

Publisher:Routledge

Length:262 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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