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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | 20/21
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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