American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / by Gavin Jones.

Introduction The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism
Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse
Paradigms of Poverty and Pauperism
Literary Uses and Abuses of Poverty
The Ambivalence of Thoreau and Davis
Redburn and Israel Potter: Transatlantic Counterparts
Melville's Sketches of the Mid-1850s
Poor Pierre
Problems of Need in The Confidence-Man
Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem
Writing Poverty
The Persistence of Pauperism
What's the Matter with Hurstwood?
The Class that Drifts
Fear of Falling
The Feminization of Poverty
Poor Lily
Class and Gender
The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage
Understanding the Depression
Agee's Uncertainty
Damage and Disadvantage
The Beauty and Erotics of Poverty
Race, Class, and Poor Richard
American Hunger
Delinquent Identity.