Homelessness in American Literature

Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony

• Author(s): John Allen,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 195
• ISBN_10: 0415945895
  ISBN_13: 9780415945899
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / United States / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness ,

Description:... This 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.