Poverty in Contemporary Literature
Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market
Authors: Korte, B., Zipp, G.
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- About this book
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Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.
- About the authors
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Barbara Korte is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her books include English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations (2000) and she is editor of The Penguin Book of First World War Stories (2007).
Georg Zipp is an academic researcher at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His study on poverty in Contemporary Caribbean fiction is forthcoming.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Premises and Concepts
Pages 9-16
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Lifewriting
Pages 17-30
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Popular Genre Fiction
Pages 31-57
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Literary Fiction
Pages 58-80
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Poverty in Contemporary Literature
- Book Subtitle
- Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market
- Authors
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- B. Korte
- G. Zipp
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-42929-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137429292
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-42928-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 149
- Topics
