The tramp in British literature, 1850-1950 / Luke Lewin Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Luke Lewin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Tramps in literature.

Homelessness in literature.

Rogues and vagabonds in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 344 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

The first comprehensive survey of trampdom over the last 600 years. Uniquely informative and readable. John Sutherland, Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of English, University College London Davies remarkable monograph is the most comprehensive text available on tramp fiction, biography and autobiography. Ian Cutler, author of The Lives And Extraordinary Adventures Of Fifteen Tramp Writers Essential reading for anyone interested in the wider currents of working-class life writing and fiction. Nick Hubble, Professor of English, Brunel University London With its abundance of arresting examples and careful theoretical analyses, this book will interest all who ponder proletarian literatures radical political possibilities. Florence Boos, Professor of English, University of Iowa An absorbing study, meticulously detailed and contextualised, on an important topic. John Goodridge, Emeritus Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University A remarkable service for scholars and students alike, raising pressing, timely questions about the ideology of productiveness. Matthew Beaumont, Professor of English, University College London The Tramp in British Literature, 18501950 offers an account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century, which it argues reflects the evolution of capitalism and disciplinary society in this period. In the process it uncovers a neglected body of literature on the subject of the tramp written by thirty-three memoir writers and eighteen fiction writers, most of whom were themselves homeless. In analysing these works, The Tramp in British Literature presents select texts as a unique and ignored contribution to a wider radical discourse defined by its opposition to a societal fixation upon the need to be productive. Luke Lewin Davies teaches at the University of Tubingen, Germany.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1. The Emergence of the Tramp

1.1. Definition of Terms

1.2. A Short History of Homelessness: 1500-1950

1.2.1. Sixteenth Century

1.2.2. Seventeenth Century

1.2.3. Eighteenth Century

1.2.4. Nineteenth Century

1.2.5. Twentieth Century

1.2.6. Summary

1.3. Tramp Literature: 1850

1950

2. Disciplinary Society and the Homeless

2.1. From Sovereign Power to Disciplinary Power

2.2. Sixteenth-Century Rogue Literature: The Pre-disciplinary Threat of Masterlessness

2.2.1. Thomas Harman (fl. 1547

1567)

2.3. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Social Investigation and Exploration Literature: The Disciplinary Threat of Non-contribution

2.3.1. Nineteenth-Century Social Investigation and Exploration: Henry Mayhew (1812

1887) and James Greenwood (1832

1927)

2.3.2. Twentieth-Century Social Exploration: Mary Higgs (1854

1937), Ada Chesterton (1869

1962) and George Orwell (1903

1950)

3. The Tramp as a Symbol of Resistance Against Disciplinary and Productivist Ideology

3.1. Work, Gender and Sexuality, and Community

3.1.1. Work

3.1.2. Gender and Sexuality

3.1.3. Community

3.1.4. Summary

3.2. Estrangement Theory and the Tramp

4. Limitations of the Tramp Model: Representation and Otherness

4.1. Making the Subaltern Speak

4.2. Objections to the Category of Alterity

4.3. Proposed Critical Approach

5. Categorising Works of Reverse Discourse Tramp Literature: Three Models of Dissent

5.1. Radical Anti-productivist Theory

5.1.1. Utopianism

5.1.2. Nineteenth-Century Anarchism

5.1.3. The Frankfurt School

5.1.4. Italian Autonomist Marxism and Twentieth-Century Anarchism

5.1.5. Twenty-First-Century Communism

5.1.6. Postcapitalist Theory

5.1.7. Summary

5.2. Non-radical Identity-Oriented Anti-productivist Texts

5.2.1. Bohemian Literature

5.2.2. Nature Writing

5.2.3. Summary

5.3. Implicitly Radical Anti-productivist Narratives

5.3.1. Post-war Working-Class Fiction

5.4. Implications of Classifying Works of Reverse Discourse Tramp Literature as Radical, Non-radical or Implicitly Radical

5.5. Summary

6. The Tramp in British Literature, 1850

6.1. Methodology

6.2. Chapter Outline

6.3. Existing Criticism

6.4. British Focus

6.5. Literary Focus

Works Cited

2. Reverse Discourse Tramp Memoirs

1. Chapter Outline

2. Life Writing: Origins of the Tramp Memoir

2.1. Definition of the Memoir Form

2.2. The Eighteenth Century: Lives of the Poor

2.2.1. The Newgate Calendar

2.2.2. Court Proceedings and Begging Letters

2.2.3. Summary

2.3. The Nineteenth Century: The `Age of Biography' and the Emergence of Working-Class Life Writing

3. The Early Vagrant and Tramp Memoir

3.1. Regency Era and Early Victorian Repentance Narratives: Mary Saxby, James Dawson Burn, `Colin', William Cameron and Josiah Basset

3.1.1. Working-Class Memoirs with Homeless Episodes: William Brown (b. 1782)

3.1.2. Mary Saxby (1738

1801)

3.1.3. James Dawson Burn (1806

1889)

3.1.4. `Colin' (fl. 1855)

3.1.5. William Cameron (1784

1851)

3.1.6. Josiah Basset (b. 1812)

3.1.7. Summary

3.2. Late Victorian and Edwardian Reverse Discourse Tramp Memoirs: Morley Roberts, Bart Kennedy and W.H. Davies

3.2.1. Overview of Other Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Reverse Discourse Tramp Memoirs: George Atkins Brine (1811

1881)

3.2.2. Morley Roberts (1857

1942)

3.2.3. Bart Kennedy (1861

1930)

3.2.4. W.H. Davies (1871

1940)

3.2.5. Summary

4. The Interwar Reverse Discourse Tramp Memoir

4.1. Working-Class Memoirs with Tramping Episodes: Will Thome (1857

1946), Albert Pugh (b. 1867) and Ben Tillett (1860

1943)

4.2. Itinerant Labourer and Sailor Memoirs with Tramping Episodes: Fred Bower (1871

1942) and J.E. Patterson (1866

1919)

4.3. Social Explorers Who Became Tramps: Frank Gray (1880

1935), Frank Jennings (b. 1898) and George Orwell (1903

4.4. Miscellaneous Tramp Memoirs: Terence Horsley (1904

1949), Frank Stanley Stuart (b. 1904), `Digit' (fl. 1924) and Joseph Stamper (1886

1974)

4.5. Literary Tramp Memoirs: Charles Landery and Chris Massie

4.5.1. Overview of Other Literary Tramp Memoirs: Trader Horn (1861

1931) and George Garrett (1896

1966)

4.5.2. Charles Landery (fl. 1938

1952)

4.5.3. Chris Massie (b. 1881)

4.6. Criminal Tramp Memoirs: James Milligan and John Worby

4.6.1. Overview of Other Criminal Tramp Memoirs: Charles Prior (fl. 1937) and Hippo Neville (fl. 1935)

4.6.2. James Milligan (fl. 1936)

4.6.3. John Worby (fl. 1937

1939)

4.7. Peripatetic Tramp Memoirs: Matt Marshall and Jim Phelan

4.7.1. Peripatetic Literature and Vagrancy: From Romanticism to the Peripatetic Tramp Memoir

4.7.2. Overview of Other Peripatetic Tramp Memoirs I: Stephen Graham (1884

1975)

4.7.3. Overview of Other Peripatetic Tramp Memoirs II: Harry Foster (1894

1932), Harry Clouston (fl. 1937), Jan Gordon (1882

1944), Cora Gordon (1879

1950) and Ryan MacMahon (fl. 1948)

4.7.4. Matt Marshall (fl. 1932

1935)

4.7.5. Jim Phelan (1895

4.8. Political Tramp Memoirs: John Brown, W.A. Gape and Liam O'Flaherty

4.8.1. John Brown (b. 1907)

4.8.2. W.A. Gape (fl. 1936)

4.8.3. Liam O'Flaherty (1896

1984)

4.8.4. Summary

5. Conclusion

5.7. Tramp Memoirs as a Reverse Discourse

5.2. Tramp Memoirs as Radical Anti-productivist Literature

5.3. Broader Limitations

5.4. Summary

3. Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction

2. Homelessness in Fiction: Origins of Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction

2.1. Early Modern Representations of Homelessness: Rogue Literature, the Picaresque Tradition and Satire

2.1.1. Evolution of Rogue Literature: Robert Greene (1558

1592) and Poverty Ballads (1550

1700)

2.1.2. Influence of Picaresque Tradition: Richard Head (1637

1686), Francis Kirkham (b. 1632), Bampfylde Moore Carew (1690

1758) and Robert Goadby (1721

1778)

2.1.3. Satire: John Gay (1685

1732)

2.1.4. Summary

2.2. Late Modern Representations of Homelessness: Realism, Romanticism, the Social Problem Novel, New Realism and the Socialist Novel

2.2.1. Realism: George Crabbe (1754

1832)

2.2.2. Romanticism: William Wordsworth (1770

1850)

2.2.3. The Social Problem Novel: Charles Dickens (1812

1870)

2.2.4. New Realism: Arthur Morrison (1863

1945)

2.2.5. Socialist Fiction: Margaret Harkness (1854

1923)

2.2.6. Summary

3.1. Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction by Non-working-class or Homeless Authors: Felicia Skene (1821

1899), James Hunter Crawford (1840

1916), Harold Brighouse (1882

1958), George Gissing (1857

1903) and Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908

1992)

3.2. Early Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction: Bart Kennedy and W.H. Davies

3.2.1. Explanation for Non-inclusion: Morley Roberts (1857

3.2.2. Bart Kennedy (1861

3.2.3. W.H. Davies (1871

3.3. Inter war Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction by Working-Class Authors: Walter Brierley, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and James Hanley

3.3.1. Overview of Other Authors in the Genre: Leslie Hal ward (1905

1976), George Garrett (1896

1966), Patrick MacGill (1889

1963), Liam O'Flaherty (1896

1984), R.M. Fox (1891

1969) and Jack Hilton (1900

1983)

3.3.2. Walter Brierley (1900

1972)

3.3.3. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886

1962)

3.3.4. James Hanley (1897

1985)

3.4. Interwar Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction by Homeless Authors: Jim Phelan and Chris Massie

3.4.1. Explanation for Non-inclusion: Joseph Stamper (1886

3.4.2. Jim Phelan (1895

3.4.3. Chris Massie (b. 1881)

4. Conclusion

4.1. Tramp Fiction as a Reverse Discourse

4.2. Reverse Discourse Tramp Fiction as Radical Anti-productivist Literature

4.3. Broader Limitations

4.4. Summary

1. Summary of Findings

2. Significance of Findings

3. Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3030734315

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OCLC:

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