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The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bryan YazellPublish date:2023-04-17Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399506717ISBN-10:1399506714UPC:9781399506717Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCJ2WXZJMD
This book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with 'tramps', facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state's ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population. Almost always depicted as white, solitary, and artistic, the tramp character was once a menacing threat to society only to disappear from the public eye by the postwar period. This book brings to light the often-surprising lines of influence between authors, sociologists, and government authorities who alike seized on the social panic around tramping in order to reimagine the relation of work to national citizenship.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399506717ISBN-10:1399506714UPC:9781399506717Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, ModernBook Topic:19th Century, 20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCJ2WXZJMD

Bryan Yazell is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and a fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study.


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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