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The primal scene of all nineteenth-century Western thought might well be the moment an observer gazed at someone poor, most commonly on the streets of a great metropolis, and wondered what the spectacle meant in human, moral, political, and metaphysical terms. In Russia, where so much of the population was impoverished, the moment held special significance. David Herman examines how Russian writers portrayed this poverty and what their portrayal reveals and articulates about core values of Russian culture.Focussing on specific texts but addressing the literary tradition as a whole, Herman begins with Karamzin's immensely popular story "Poor Liza", the first in a sequence of poverty narratives that self-consciously address one another. He then considers Pushkin's "Egyptian Nights"; Gogol's "Overcoat", Petersburg tales, and Selected Passages; and Dostoevsky's Idiot and 1880 "Pushkin speech".With a series of innovative readings, Poverty of the Imagination teases out a Russian discourse on lack which owes its peculiar richness to an insistence on solving simultaneously problems of social justice, national identity, and the ethics of the human imagination. As prominently as poverty figures in Russian literature, this is the first sustained analysis of its literary, conceptual, and cultural implications. As such, it deepens our understanding and appreciation of some of the most widely read literature of all time.

Russian literature --- Poor in literature. --- Poverty in literature. --- History and criticism.

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American culture has long had a conflicted relationship with assistance to the poor. Cotton Mather and John Winthrop were staunch proponents of Christian charity as fundamental to colonial American society, while transcendentalists harbored deep skepticism towards benevolence in favor of Emersonian self-reliance and Thoreau's insistence on an ascetic life. Women in the 19th century, as these essays show, approached issues of benevolence far differently than their male counterparts, consistently promoting assistance to the impoverished, in both their acts and their writings. <

American literature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Literature and society --- United States --- History --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- Benevolence in literature --- Charity in literature --- Poor --- Poor in literature. --- Poverty in literature. --- Charity in literature. --- Benevolence in literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism.

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Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism. --- Mass media and art -- United States. --- Modernism (Literature) -- United States. --- American fiction --- Poor in literature --- Experimental fiction, American --- Art and literature --- Documentary photography --- Mass media and art --- Modernism (Literature) --- Visual perception in literature --- Social problems in literature --- Poverty in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Art and mass media --- Art --- Photography, Documentary --- Photography --- American experimental fiction --- American literature --- History and criticism --- History