The American Vagrant in Literature : Race, Work and Welfare
by
Bryan Yazell
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1399506714
ISBN-13
9781399506717
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 17th, 2023
Print length
192 Pages
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -Sociology
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Widespread panic once generated by 'tramps' produced interdisciplinary and international dialogue on race, work, and welfare
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.
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