Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain.

Culture & Conflict -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain: An Introduction -- 1 Poverty in English and British Literature: Conjectures and Trajectories in Research -- 2 Leading Research Premises and Questions -- 3 The Chapters -- Works Cited -- Envying the Poor: Contemporary and Nineteenth-Century Fantasies of Vulnerability -- I -- II -- Works Cited -- Managing the Unmanageable: Paradoxes of Poverty in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy(1832 - 1834) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Politics and/of Poverty -- 3 Paradoxes of Poverty -- 4 Poverty and Science-Fiction -- 5 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- "We have learned the value of poverty": (Re-)Presentations of the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Melodramas -- 1 Poverty and Melodrama -- 2 The Rent Day -- 3 The Poor of New York and The Lights o' London -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- The Sexual Exploitation of the Poor in W. T. Stead's 'New Journalism': Humanity, Democracy and the Tabloid Press -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Myth, Commodification and "Bare Life" -- 3 Ways of Seeing -- 4 A Parallel Society -- 5 The Moral Duty of Publicity -- 6 Empathy, or the Time of Precariousness -- 7 Humanity and the Ongoingness of Inhumanity -- Works Cited -- "The Amateur Casuals": Immersion among the Poor from James Greenwood to George Orwell -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- Works Cited -- Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth and the Deconstruction of Stereotypes about Irish Poverty -- 1 Introduction: Ireland, Poverty and Agency -- 2 Original, Translation, and Audiences -- 3 Refigured Images of Irishness: Poverty as Authenticity -- 4 The True Irish Fate of Being Poor -- 5 The Oppressor's Language: Appropriation and Abrogation -- 6 Linguistic and Cultural Essentialism Debunked -- 7 Representation Agency and Revisited -- Works Cited.

Frames of Recognition under Global Capitalism: Eastern European Migrants in British Fiction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Judith Butler's Theory of Recognition -- 3 From Eastern European Communism to European Community: Rose Tremain's The Road Home -- 4 'Our two cultures had made us profoundly different': Kate Clanchy's Antigona and Me -- 5 Theoretical and Literary Models: A Conclusion -- Works Cited -- "The Last Voice of Democracy": Precarity, Community and Fiction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar (1995) -- I -- II -- III -- Works Cited -- Life on the Streets: Parallactic Ways of Seeing Homelessness in John Berger's King: A Street Story (1999) -- 1 Homelessness as Precarious Life -- 2 The Parallax Effect -- 3 Ways of Seeing in King -- First World and Third World -- Author and Narrator -- Animal and Human -- 4 New Ways of Seeing - New Voices? -- Works Cited -- Poverty on the Market: Precarious Lives in Popular Fiction -- 1 Poverty and the Popular -- 2 Articulations of Poverty and the Popular on Contemporary Cultural Markets -- 3 Poverty in Popular Genre Fiction -- Works Cited -- Weaponizing Prurience -- 1 Introduction: Positioning Poverty Porn -- 2 Prurience, Pornography, Precarious Lives -- 3 The Role of Compassion -- 4 What Can Prurience Do? -- 5 Conclusion: Prurience Is Not the Problem -- Works Cited -- Biographies of the Contributors -- Index.