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

by David Aberbach

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"