Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos

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Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos

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The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called ‘Golden Age of Tramping’ (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this ‘pioneer hobo’ image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around ‘the hobo’ and ‘the tramp’. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.

SKU: 44318 Category: Tags: ,
Subtitle: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890–1940
Author: Clayton, Owen
Year: 2023
ISBN: 9781009348034
Pages: 280
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge university press
Publisher's city: Cambridge
Publication date: 2023-08-10
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