Author: John Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1317726286

This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and many others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.