American hungers: the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945
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Main Author: Jones, Gavin Roger (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2008
Series:20/21
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism; ONE: Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse; TWO: Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem; THREE: The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage; CONCLUSION; Notes; Works Cited; Index
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 hi
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 228 p.)
ISBN:0691127530
0691143315
1282453149
1400831911
9780691127538
9780691143316
9781282453142
9781400831913

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