American Hungers
Subtitle: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (20/21)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 3, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780691127538
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; American Literature (Specific Aspects); Literary History And Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Poverty; United States - General; American Language and Literature; Comparative Literature; 19th century; 20th century; American literature; History and criticism; Poverty in literature
Description: "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."--Jacket.