Morrison, Gissing, and the stark reality

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Arthur Morrison and George Gissing were both born into the lower strata of society. As he rose from his lower-working class origins to become a writer, Morrison decided to deal with the urban slum experience in his works. Because he wrote from the vantage point of his experience, Morrison's works were hardly appreciated by the middle class readers. On the other hand, George Gissing's novel 'The Nether World' faced up to the integration of the poor into popular culture. The implications of the work of both writers are discussed.

Novelists, Poverty, Morrison, Arthur (British writer), Gissing, George

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"Unhuman humanity": bodies of the urban poor and the collapse of realist legibility

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Late-19th-century American authors such as Stephen Crane presented encounters with the urban underclass as rhetorical constructions and spectacle. Crane suggested the underclass cannot be accurately analyzed by the scientific gaze so often employed in contemporary journalism, resisting attempts to reform and legitimize.

Crane, Stephen

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The work of art: irony and identification in 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.'(The Turn-of-the-Century American Novel)(Critical Essay)

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James Agee constructed 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' as a documentary book to spur social change by presenting its sharecropper subjects as simultaneously human as Agee's audience yet utterly different. The use of irony in this work invalidated shallow assumptions about sharecroppers while eliciting sympathy for them.

Agee, James

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