Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain / edited by Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard.
| Other author | Korte, Barbara, 1957- |
| Other author | Regard, Frédéric. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014] |
| Description | vi, 232 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 5 Culture & conflict ; Bd. 5. ^A1257140 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014501245 |
| ISBN | 9783110367935 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 3110367939 (hbk.) |
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