American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945

by Gavin Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691143315
• ISBN13: 9780691143316
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"