Homelessness in American literature : romanticism, realism, and testimony / John Allen.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
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2004.
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| Series: | American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- "In my father's house are many mansions": homelessness and domesticity in Uncle Tom's cabin
- "Street Arabs" and the "tramp menace": the function of homeless characters in the work of Horatio Alger
- The other half and how it lives: Jacob Riis and Stephen Crane's vision of poverty and homelessness
- Romance of The road: Jack London and the publication of tramp autobiographies in America
- "I did not write these stories": Meridel Le Sueur and American testimonial literature
- American testimonial literature and the contemporary discourse of homelessness.