商品簡介
British and other European contributors in English literature, poverty studies, and cultural studies offer literary studies and cultural studies perspective of representations of British poverty in popular fiction and journalism since the 19th century. The literary representations examined include English and British novels, short stories, narrative journalism, stage plays, and scripted television. Some subjects explored include Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy, representations of the poor in 19th century melodramas, sexual exploitation of the poor in W. T. Stead's new journalism, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar, Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth, and Slumdog Millionaire as poverty porn. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Barbara Korte,University of Freiburg,Germany; Frederic Regard, Sorbonne, Paris, France.
