Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain / ed. by Barbara Korte, Frédéric Regard.

• MitwirkendeR: Abrunhosa, Marina Remy,; Betensky, Carolyn,; Egbert, Marie-Luise,; Eveline, Kilian,; Frenk, Joachim,; Hester, Helen,; Korte, Barbara,; Regard, Frédéric,; Romain, Nguyen Van,; Rostek, Joanna,; Zipp, Georg,
• HerausgeberIn: Korte, Barbara,; Regard, Frédéric,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Culture & Conflict , 5
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource

Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain: An Introduction
• Envying the Poor: Contemporary and Nineteenth-Century Fantasies of Vulnerability
• Managing the Unmanageable: Paradoxes of Poverty in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-1834)
• "We have learned the value of poverty": (Re‐)Presentations of the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Melodramas
• The Sexual Exploitation of the Poor in W. T. Stead's 'New Journalism': Humanity, Democracy and the Tabloid Press
• "The Amateur Casuals": Immersion among the Poor from James Greenwood to George Orwell
• Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth and the Deconstruction of Stereotypes about Irish Poverty
• Frames of Recognition under Global Capitalism: Eastern European Migrants in British Fiction
• "The Last Voice of Democracy": Precarity, Community and Fiction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995)
• Life on the Streets: Parallactic Ways of Seeing Homelessness in John Berger's King: A Street Story (1999)
• Poverty on the Market: Precarious Lives in Popular Fiction
• Weaponizing Prurience
• Biographies of the Contributors
• Index