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... . By Batiste Stephanie Leigh . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 326 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 . The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression . By Lancaster Ashley Craig . Baton Rouge : Louisiana...

...Lori Merish Abstract “Picturing Poverty” addresses the striking absence of discussion of poverty in US cultural criticism by turning to the archive to examine historically significant and influential, but previously neglected, early photographs of the poor alongside more familiar literary texts...

...Patrick S. Lawrence Abstract US economic policy in the late twentieth century privileged the financial sector by advancing generous tax breaks for wealthy Americans and traders and prioritizing union-busting and cuts to social programs, producing a violence of deprivation against the poor...

... politics of eviction, these authors exploited and contested popular genres of eviction reportage, which narrated dispossession as a pathology of the poor to legitimate the state’s violent protection of private property. Challenging this pathologization as well as the scapegoating of Communist agitation...

... Party and the “Young America” movement seemed to take a sinister turn with the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and Melville grew disillusioned with Young America's literary side following the poor reception of Moby-Dick (1851). Melville's fourth novel, Redburn (1849), though regarded as one of his secondary...

.... Larsen’s “Sanctuary” bitterly critiques the triumph of culture, education, and moral agency in Wharton’s tale, while reworking “Mrs. Adis” to expose group solidarity as a poor substitute for autonomy, segregation in another guise. Larsen’s “Sanctuary” reveals the false promises held out to African...

... it enabled, particularly where poor and working-class readers were concerned. Robinson Crusoe ’s circulation among economically marginalized audiences becomes especially important when we consider the frequency with which issues of upward mobility and wealth acquisition are foregrounded in American...

...John Marsh [email protected] Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing . By Sarah Robertson . Oxford : Univ. of Mississippi Press . 2019 . xxii, 188 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites...

...Kimberly Chantal Welch [email protected] Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University . By Matt Brim . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2020 . xi, 247 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book available. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity during This Crisis...

... connotations. Based on a somewhat uncommon etymology, poverty derives from the Old French poeste , which means power, and poeste gives form to in poustie , which means possibility. 1 As possibility, poverty is a dilemma for governance and, likewise, for the way poverty studies often treats the poor...

... catastrophes render environmental intersections more crucial than ever in conceptualizing the ways that capital dispossesses and extracts value from the poor. To take perhaps the most salient example, we are already witnessing W. E. B. Du Bois’s international color line becoming also a matter of shorelines...

... rented vacant space on the sixth floor of its downtown offices to Charles Loring Brace for the establishment of the city’s first Newsboys’ Lodging House, a subsidized boarding house for poor and homeless children to be run by the Children’s Aid Society. The space was supplied with “books, papers, & c...

... writingduringthisperiodasshewasaboutherdesiretobewellpaid. In a journal entry of 6 June 1836, for example, she expresses a wish that the Poor Rich Man would succeed, ‘‘with God’s blessing’’ ‘‘on its mission’’ (LLCS, 255). As she was finishing her first draft of Live and Let Live the next year, she declared: ‘‘I hope it will do some good’’ (LLCS, 256...

... see these poor individuals, so many of these people almost all of them that we see, are so poor, someone else said, and they are so black. Have you seen their faces? —Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric ( 2014 ) In the popular imagination, poverty is a site of negation...

..., “which a child of two years old was pulling backward by the tail. At last, the kitten, in self-defence [sic], turned and scratched the boy. He screamed, and his mother ran to him, kissed the wound, and beat the poor kitten.” “The child,” she concludes, “was encouraged in cruelty, by seeing...

...: Modern Poetry and the Material World . Berkeley, Los Angeles : Univ. of California Press . Fender Stephen . 2011 . Nature, Class, and New Deal Literature: The Country Poor in the Great Depression . New York : Routledge . Filreis Alan . 1994 . Modernism from Right to Left...

... for Linda’s daughter, Ellen, as a place of refuge from Mrs. Flint’s cruelty. At one point, Ellen is taken out of the prison in order to receive some medical treatment, but “poor little Ellen crie[s] all day to be carried back to prison . . . She kn[ows] she was loved in the jail . . . ” (131). I read...

... ern paradigms for organizing class relations. His fiction of the Phil- ippines explores the opposition between poor peasants and wealthy landowners from a perspective shaped largely by his Marxist opposi- tion...

... that . . . imbue its material and biological fabric with affect” ( 2013 , 293). 9 The widespread association of unpleasant smells with poor hygiene and risk derived from nineteenth-century “miasma” theories of disease: as the British public health expert Edwin Chadwick put it in 1846, “All smell...