American Hungers : : The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 / / Gavin Jones.
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These ins...
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Jones, Gavin, author. American Hungers : The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 / Gavin Jones. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2007 1 online resource : 12 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 20/21 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction. The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism -- 1. Beggaring Description: Herman Melville And Antebellum Poverty Discourse -- 2. Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem -- 3. The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial discourse on the poor that stretches from the antebellum era through the Depression. Reading writers such as Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James Agee, and Richard Wright in their historical contexts, Jones explores why they succeeded where literary critics have fallen short. These authors acknowledged a poverty that was as aesthetically and culturally significant as it was socially and materially real. They confronted the ideological dilemmas of approaching poverty while giving language to the marginalized poor--the beggars, tramps, sharecroppers, and factory workers who form a persistent segment of American society. Far from peripheral, poverty emerges at the center of national debates about social justice, citizenship, and minority identity. And literature becomes a crucial tool to understand an economic and cultural condition that is at once urgent and elusive because it cuts across the categories of race, gender, and class by which we conventionally understand social difference. Combining social theory with literary analysis, American Hungers masterfully brings poverty into the mainstream critical idiom. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691143316 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831913?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400831913.jpg |
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