Bryan Yazell
The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare
The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare
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<p>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 states 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.</p>
Book details
- Publication date: 28 February 2025
- Page count: 192
- Dimensions: Height 156 mm; Width 233 mm; Thickness 18 mm
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9781399506724
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