American Hungers
- 248 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Argues that poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized.
Gavin Jones Books
Gavin Jones is a Professor of English at Stanford University whose work delves into the complexities of American literature. His research explores themes such as the politics of dialect and the pervasive issue of poverty across various periods of American literary history. Jones has extensively published scholarly articles contributing to the understanding of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary traditions.
Failure and the American Writer
- 204 pages
- 8 hours of reading
The exploration of nineteenth-century American literature reveals that failure plays a crucial role in shaping the national experience, alongside success. Jones delves into the unconventional literary styles of this era, highlighting how these expressions of failure contribute significantly to the understanding of American identity and culture.
John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty- first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America.