UID:
edocfu_9958354255702883
Format:
1 online resource(viii,232p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110365740
Series Statement:
Culture & Conflict; 5
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain: An Introduction /
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Envying the Poor: Contemporary and Nineteenth-Century Fantasies of Vulnerability /
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Managing the Unmanageable: Paradoxes of Poverty in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–1834) /
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"We have learned the value of poverty": (Re‐)Presentations of the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Melodramas /
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The Sexual Exploitation of the Poor in W. T. Stead’s ‘New Journalism’: Humanity, Democracy and the Tabloid Press /
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"The Amateur Casuals": Immersion among the Poor from James Greenwood to George Orwell /
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Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth and the Deconstruction of Stereotypes about Irish Poverty /
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Frames of Recognition under Global Capitalism: Eastern European Migrants in British Fiction /
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"The Last Voice of Democracy": Precarity, Community and Fiction in Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar (1995) /
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Life on the Streets: Parallactic Ways of Seeing Homelessness in John Berger’s King: A Street Story (1999) /
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Poverty on the Market: Precarious Lives in Popular Fiction /
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Weaponizing Prurience /
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Biographies of the Contributors --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110367935
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110365757
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110365740
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365740
