Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain
By: edited by Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard
Series: Culture & conflict -- volume 5; Culture & conflict -- Bd. 5.
Publisher: De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783110367935
Subjects: Poverty in literature; History and criticism; Social problems in literature; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain: an introduction / Barbara Korte; title: Envying the poor: contemporary and nineteenth-century fantasies of vulnerability / Carolyn Betensky; title: Managing the unmanageable: paradoxes of poverty in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-1834) / Joanna Rostek; title: "We have learned the value of poverty": (Re)-presentations of the poor in nineteenth-century melodramas / Joachim Frenk; title: The sexual exploitation of the poor in W.T. Stead's 'New Journalism': humanity, democracy, and the tabloid press / Frédéric Regard; title: "The Amateur Casuals": immersion among the poor from James Greenwood to George Orwell / Marina Remy Abrunhosa - Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth and the deconstruction of stereotypes about Irish poverty / Marie-Luise Egbert; title: Frames of recognition under global capitalism: Eastern European migrants in British fiction / Eveline Kilian; title: "The Last Voice of Democracy": precarity, community and fiction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995) / Bomain Nguyen Van; title: Life on the streets: parallactic ways of seeing homelessness in John Berger's King: A Street Story (1999) / George Zipp; title: Poverty on the market: precarious lives in popular fiction  / Barbara Korte; title: Weaponizing prurience / Helen Hester.