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Author Yazell, Bryan, author

Title The American vagrant in literature : race, work and welfare / Bryan Yazell
Published [Edinburgh] : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 184 pages)
Contents Introduction: Who was the tramp? -- Chapter 1. The internationalism of American vagrancy: Mark Twain and Josiah Flynt on the tramp -- Chapter 2. Vagrant nationalism: Jack London and W. H. Davies on the super-tramp -- Chapter 3. Tramps in the machine: interwar British vagrancy -- Chapter 4. Steinbeck's migrants: families on the move and the politics of resource management -- Epilogue: Tramping's afterlife -- Works cited -- Index
Summary Widespread panic once generated by 'tramps' produced interdisciplinary and international dialogue on race, work, and welfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on March 23, 2023)
Subject Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
Tramps in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Citizenship in literature
Rogues and vagabonds in literature
Tramps in literature
Form Electronic book
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