There is a piece to be written on the pernicious influence Gertrude Himmelfarb has had on how Brooks, Douthat & Co. understand poverty.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Salient fact about Himmelfarb is that she's an intellectual historian, not a social historian. Interest in "idea of poverty" not the reality
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Reading Himmelfarb, you learn about how Burke, Hannah More, etc. thought about poverty -- very different than how poverty actually worked.
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I don't think Brooks, Douthat & Co. realize that Hannah More ideas about poor needing moral reform widely contested by poor themselves.
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@LoveLifeLitGod@jlupf Audience for her pseudo-ballads was meant to be poor, to judge by distribution and stories in ballads.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet@jlupf This may interest you: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/march/hannah-more-powerhouse-in-petticoat.html?paging=off …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@LoveLifeLitGod@jlupf See Chapter 6 of Robin Ganev's "Songs of Protest, Songs of Love."1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@HeerJeet@LoveLifeLitGod@jlupf high hopes for this fight2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@martynwendell@HeerJeet@jlupf Besides the slave traders, that is. Of course, they were working class, too.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@LoveLifeLitGod @martynwendell @jlupf But to return to instigation, I will grant More willing to criticize rich more than David Brooks
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