Fragments of Fury? Lunacy, Agency, and Contestation in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse, 1890s-1900s
Fragments of Fury? Lunacy, Agency, and Contestation in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse, 1890s-1900s
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10.1162/jinh_a_01556
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2020
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对丑闻的方法论和哲学上的关注已经把位于英格兰和威尔士新济贫法（1834-1929）的流行和历史学理解核心的济贫院变成了一个黑暗的地方，穷人基本上无力抵抗。然而，通过不常应用于福利史的跨学科方法的透镜，特别是历史社会语言学和物质文化分析，从大规模研究项目中出现的贫民信件和“缝合”文本显示，囚犯在济贫院的经历并不像以前想象的那样可怕，他们的声音也不像以前想象的那样被压制。
A methodological and philosophical focus on scandals has turned the workhouse that stands at the heart of popular and historiographical understandings of the English and Welsh New Poor Law (1834–1929) into a dark place of confinement and harsh treatment that the poor were largely powerless to resist. Yet viewed through the lens of interdisciplinary methods not often applied to the history of welfare—in particular, historical sociolinguistics and material-culture analysis—the pauper letters and “stitched” texts that have emerged from large-scale research projects reveal that inmates’ experience in the workhouse were not as dire, and their voices not as suppressed, as once supposed.