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Narrating poverty and precarity in Britain /
"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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Culture & conflict ;
Bd. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.