Title Superintending the poor : charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction, 1770-1860 / Beth Fowkes Tobin

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) Contents Ch. 1. The Man of Feeling, Arthur Young, and the Dissolution of the Paternal Order -- Ch. 2. Economic Man and Civic Virtue: Godwin's Caleb Williams and Bage's Mount Henneth -- Ch. 3. The Moral and Political Economy of Property in Austen's Emma -- Ch. 4. Mansfield Park, Hannah More, and the Evangelical Redefinition of Virtue -- Ch. 5. Women, the Clergy, and the Battle for the Superintendency of the Poor -- Ch. 6. The Cottage Visitor, the Housekeeper, and the Policeman: Self-Regulation and Surveillance in Bleak House Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Poor in literature. English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History Landlord and tenant -- Great Britain -- History Moral conditions in literature. Social conflict in literature. Economics in literature. Poverty in literature. Charity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Charity in literature Economics in literature English fiction Landlord and tenant Literature and society Moral conditions in literature Poor in literature Poverty in literature Armut Motiv Literatur Social conflict in literature Wohltätigkeit Motiv Armenzorg. Burgerij. Letterkunde. Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Roman anglais -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne. Propriétaires et locataires. Pauvreté -- Dans la littérature. Charité -- Dans la littérature. Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780300239768 0300239769

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