American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 /
Jones, Gavin Roger,1968-
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
Introduction The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism -- Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse  -- Paradigms of Poverty and Pauperism -- Literary Uses and Abuses of Poverty -- The Ambivalence of Thoreau and Davis -- Redburn and Israel Potter: Transatlantic Counterparts -- Melville's Sketches of the Mid-1850s -- Poor Pierre -- Problems of Need in The Confidence-Man -- Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem -- Writing Poverty -- The Persistence of Pauperism -- What's the Matter with Hurstwood? -- The Class that Drifts -- Fear of Falling -- The Feminization of Poverty -- Poor Lily -- Class and Gender -- The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage -- Understanding the Depression -- Agee's Uncertainty -- Damage and Disadvantage -- The Beauty and Erotics of Poverty -- Race, Class, and Poor Richard -- American Hunger -- Delinquent Identity.
American literature
Poverty in literature.
American literature
Social classes in literature.
Literature and society