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 InfoBerlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
Descriptionvi, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
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SeriesCulture & 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9783110367935 (hbk.)
ISBN3110367939 (hbk.)

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