American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / Gavin Jones.

• Introduction The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism -- Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse -- Paradigms of Poverty and Pauperism -- Literary Uses and Abuses of Poverty -- The Ambivalence of Thoreau and Davis -- Redburn and Israel Potter: Transatlantic Counterparts -- Melville's Sketches of the Mid-1850s -- Poor Pierre -- Problems of Need in The Confidence-Man -- Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem -- Writing Poverty -- The Persistence of Pauperism -- What's the Matter with Hurstwood? -- The Class that Drifts -- Fear of Falling -- The Feminization of Poverty -- Poor Lily -- Class and Gender -- The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage -- Understanding the Depression -- Agee's Uncertainty -- Damage and Disadvantage -- The Beauty and Erotics of Poverty -- Race, Class, and Poor Richard -- American Hunger -- Delinquent Identity.

Ämnesord

Fattigdom i litteraturen  (sao)

Sociala klasser i litteraturen  (sao)

Poverty in literature.  (LCSH)

Social classes in literature.  (LCSH)

American literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American literature  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Litteratur och samhälle  -- Förenta staterna (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet (sao)

Poverty in literature  (LCSH)

Social classes in literature  (LCSH)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Geq.44 Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: tiden 1789-1865

Geq.48 Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: tiden 1865-1900

Geq.5 Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: 1900-talet

G.096z Litteraturhistoria: skönlitteratur med särskilda motiv

G:oa Litteratursociologi

Klassifikation

PS217.P67 (LCC)

810.9/355 (DDC)

Geq.44 (kssb/8)

Geq.48 (kssb/8)

Geq.5 (kssb/8)

G.096z Fattigdom (kssb/8)

G:oa (kssb/8)