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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008
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| Series: | 20/21.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0691127530 9780691127538 9781400831913 1400831911 1282453149 9781282453142 0691143315 9780691143316 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
