Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It

by Lennard J. Davis

For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. In Poor Things, Lennard J. Davis labels this genre "poornography" distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147802674X
• ISBN13: 9781478026747
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.