| Description |
1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Series |
Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 5 |
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Culture & conflict ; Bd. 5.
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| Contents |
Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain: an introduction / Barbara Korte -- Envying the poor: contemporary and nineteenth-century fantasies of vulnerability / Carolyn Betensky -- Managing the unmanageable: paradoxes of poverty in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-1834) / Joanna Rostek -- "We have learned the value of poverty": (Re)-presentations of the poor in nineteenth-century melodramas / Joachim Frenk -- The sexual exploitation of the poor in W.T. Stead's 'New Journalism': humanity, democracy, and the tabloid press / Frédéric Regard -- "The Amateur Casuals": immersion among the poor from James Greenwood to George Orwell / Marina Remy Abrunhosa -- Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth and the deconstruction of stereotypes about Irish poverty / Marie-Luise Egbert -- Frames of recognition under global capitalism: Eastern European migrants in British fiction / Eveline Kilian -- "The Last Voice of Democracy": precarity, community and fiction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995) / Bomain Nguyen Van -- Life on the streets: parallactic ways of seeing homelessness in John Berger's King: A Street Story (1999) / George Zipp -- Poverty on the market: precarious lives in popular fiction / Barbara Korte -- Weaponizing prurience / Helen Hester |
| Summary |
"Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Poverty in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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English fiction -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction
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Poverty in literature
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Social problems in literature
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Armut Motiv
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Literatur
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Prekariat Motiv
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Englisch
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Korte, Barbara, 1957- editor.
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Regard, Frédéric, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110365740 |
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311036574X |
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9783110391367 |
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3110391368 |
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