Ebook: American hungers: the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945
- Tags: literatura in družba, American literature--19th century--20th cent--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History, Literature and society, Poverty in literature, Social classes in literature, American literature, Criticism interpretation etc., History, American literature -- 19th century -- 20th cent -- History and criticism, Literature and society -- United States -- History, Melville Herman -- 1819-1891, Dreiser Theodore -- 1871-1945, Wharton Edith -- 1862-1937, Agee James
- Series: 20/21
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- City: Oxford;Princeton;United States
- Language: English
- epub
"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."--Besedilo s hrbta knj.
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