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    A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)

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  • Her Bread To Earn

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    Much criticism has posited an all-powerful patriarchy that effectively marginalized and disempowered women until well into the nineteenth century. In a startling revisionist study, Mona Scheuermann refutes these stereotypes, finding that the images presented by eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novelists are of functioning, capable women whose involvement with the getting, keeping, and ... En savoir plus

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  • In Praise of Poverty

    Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat

    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 More's 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • 1650-1850

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  • The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

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