Homelessness in American Literature - Romanticism, Realism and Testimony

Klappentext This study analyses the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe! Stephen Crane! Jack London! Meridel Le Sueur and others! it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified. Zusammenfassung This study analyses the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.

Product details

• Authors: John Allen
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415945899
• ISBN: 978-0-415-94589-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture; Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, English, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -