Cheap Repository Tracts
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The Cheap Repository Tracts were a series of political and religious tracts published at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century designed to instill patriotism, a good work ethic, religious belief, and an attachment to society's hierarchized class structure.[1]
With the popularity of Hannah More's Village Politics (1792), a rebuttal of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, it was decided that an entire series could be undertaken. More, her sisters and friends produced three tracts a month for three years. Each one cost a penny. It has been estimated that 2,000,000 were sold each year.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "More, Hannah." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 8 June 2007.
- ^ "More, Hannah." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved on 8 June 2007.
[edit] Resources
- Kelly, Gary. "Revolution, Reaction, and the Expropriation of Popular Culture: Hannah More's Cheap Repository." Man and Nature 6 (1987): 147-59.
- Myers, Mitzi. "Hannah More's Tracts for the Times: Social Fiction and Female Ideology." Fetter'd or Free? British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Eds. Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1986.
- Scheuerman, Mona. In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
- Vallone, Lynne. "'A humble Spirit under Correction': Tracts, Hymns, and the Ideology of Evangelical Fiction for Children, 1780-1820." The Lion and the Unicorn 15 (1991) 72-95.
