This study analyses 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 others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.
This study analyses the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher...
