American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 (20/21)

by Gavin Jones

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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 historical contexts, Jones explores why they succeeded where literary...Read more
  • ISBN10 0691127530
  • ISBN13 9780691127538
  • Publish Date 23 December 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 July 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press