Author

Publication

2014-02-28 - Palgrave Pivot

Language

English

Word Count

37,250 words, Guess

Page Count

149 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPN849.G74PN770-PN779

Description

Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. At a time of social cuts, new austerity measures and a rhetoric about 'broken Britain', poverty is present in the public imagination, and it is visible in the streets of British cities. Literature can (re- )configure how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This study investigates life-writing, fiction and non-fiction with a poverty theme, produced in Britain from the mid-1990s to the present and contributes to the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Poverty in Contemporary LiteratureHardcoverPalgrave Pivot2014-02-28

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