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Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain
- Title
- Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain / edited by Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard.
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- vi, 232 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 5
- Uniform Title
- Culture & conflict ; Bd. 5.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-5115
- ISBN
- 9783110367935
- 3110367939
- LCCN
- 2014501245
- OCLC
- 887856900
- Title
- Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain / edited by Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard.
- Publisher
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Culture & conflict, 2194-7104 ; volume 5Culture & conflict ; Bd. 5.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Korte, Barbara, 1957-Regard, Frédéric.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-5115