Poverty in Contemporary Literature: Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market

by Georg Zipp, Barbara Korte, G. Zipp

Book Overview

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. At a time of social cuts, new austerity measures and a rhetoric about 'broken Britain', poverty is present in the public imagination, and it is visible in the streets of British cities. Literature can (re-)configure how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This study investigates life-writing, fiction and non-fiction with a poverty theme, produced in Britain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137429283
• ISBN13: 9781137429285
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"