American hungers :: the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 /

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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1. Verfasser: Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:20/21.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0691127530
9780691127538
9781400831913
1400831911
1282453149
9781282453142
0691143315
9780691143316

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