American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 Jones Gavin
American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 Jones Gavin Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. These insights lay the…
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American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945 Jones Gavin
Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. 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 critics have fallen short. 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.
They confronted the ideological dilemmas of These authors acknowledged a poverty that was as aesthetically and culturally significant as it was socially and materially real.
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