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Synge on vagrancy: labour, workhouses and the feeble-minded [PDF]

open access: yesIrish Studies Review, 2020
This article demonstrates how two of J.M. Synge’s plays, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903) and The Playboy of the Western World (1907) document and reflect attitudes towards vagrancy and feeble-mindedness in Ireland at the dawn of the twentieth century ...
Christopher Collins
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On vagrancy and psychosis

Community Mental Health Journal, 1983
Paradoxically, due to recent mental health legislation, the mentally handicapped of the developed world find themselves in the same situation as the majority of those in the developing world who never had contact with a mental health service. A survey of the literature and of the situation in Egypt and Lesotho suggests marked coincidence of vagrancy ...
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Vagrancy

Notes and Queries
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Romantic Vagrancy

1995
A provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, Romantic Vagrancy traces a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of material and the literally dispossessed vagrants and beggars he encounters. Reading Wordsworth - and Rousseau before him - from the perspective of recent debates about the political ...
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Vagrancy and Begging

American Journal of Sociology, 1929
Beggars are a phenomenon of civilized society. Early substitutes for charity were slavery, remarriage, prostitution, clientage and vassalage. Social conditions giving rise to beggary and vagrancy.-Outlawry, economic and social disorganization due to changes in the economic order or political stability, breakdown of agriculture, religious ideals and ...
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