Stanford UniversityNews and information about Stanford University. News and information from the best feeds offered by Stanford University.New Book by Prof. Gavin Jones- February 6, 2008 Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial discourse on the poor that stretches from the antebellum era through the Depression. Reading...http://english.stanford.edu/index.php?news_id=153 |