Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism, and TestimonyThis book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 17 |
Homelessness | 23 |
CHAPTER | 39 |
CHAPTER THREE | 63 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 73 |
Jack London and the Publication | 95 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 111 |
American Testimonial Literature and The Contemporary | 137 |
NOTES | 151 |
| 175 | |
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