Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe: Narratives of the Sick Poor, 1780-1938

Brief Description: Explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives. Table of Contents:1. Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780 to 1938: Sources, methods and experiences "Andreas Gestrich, ""Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King" \ 2. Grief, sickness, and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth century Copenhagen "Peter Wessel Hansen" \ 3. Labouring on a bed of sickness': The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in male pauper letters "Alannah Tomkins" \ 4. 'I have Once more taken the Liberty to Say as you well know': The development of rhetoric in the letters of the English, Welsh and Scottish sick and poor 1780s-1830s "Steven King and Alison Stringer" \ 5. Poverty and epidemics: Perceptions of the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860s "Beate Althammer" \ 6. Living with Insanity: Narratives of poverty, pauperism and sickness in asylum records 1840-1876 "Cathy Smith "\ 7. Narratives of poverty in Irish suicides between the Great Famine and the First World War, 1845-1914 "Georgina Laragy" \ 8. Stories of care and coercion: Narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1860-1920 "Anna Lundberg" \ 9. From unemployment to sickness and poverty. The narratives and experiences of the unemployed in Trier and surroundings, 1918-1933 "Tamara Stazic-Wendt" \ 10. Narratives of ill-health in applicant letters from rural Germany, 1900-1930 "Katrin Marx-Jaskulski" \ 11. Asking for the privilege to work. Applications for a peddling licence (Austria in the 1920s and 1930s) "Sigrid Wadauer" \ Appendix: Narratives writ large "Richard Dyson, Peter Wessel Hansen, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King" \ Bibliography \ Index

Contributor Bio:  Gestrich, Andreas Andreas Gestrich is Director of the German Historical Institute, London, UK. Contributor Bio:  Hurren, Elizabeth Andreas Gestrich is Director of the German Historical Institute, London, UK. Contributor Bio:  King, Steven Andreas Gestrich is Director of the German Historical Institute, London, UK.