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dc.creatorStruebing, Jake Elijah
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-28T12:19:34Z
dc.date.available2016-05-01T08:59:05Z
dc.date.created2014
dc.identifierWLURG38_Struebing_ENGL_2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11021/27336
dc.descriptionThesis; [FULL-TEXT RESTRICTED TO WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY LOGIN]en_US
dc.descriptionJake Elijah Struebing is a member of the Class of 2014 of Washington and Lee University.en_US
dc.description.abstractAs a student of literary theory, I am fascinated by how literature explores and elucidates ideology and its concomitant social and cultural impact in the real world—a sort of meta-ideology. With a background in poverty and human capability studies, I am particularly interested in ideological change that substantiates social justice and rectifies morally arbitrary inequality. . . .can a novel tangibly inform and empower real-world change? Can literature convey conscience, a feeling of ethical obligation to do justice in the name of equality and liberty? Can this conscience, in turn, actually lead to justice? I answer these questions in the affirmative and, in doing so, offer a theory that will hopefully fill a void in the way we qualitatively assess the social impact of novels. The theory—what I term the politics of poverty—attempts to show how conceptual understandings of conscience in literature lead to real-world manifestations of justice, alleviating hardship and oppression. This thesis examines Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838) and Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) using this theoretical framework. . . . [From Introduction]en_US
dc.format.extent83 pagesen_US
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dc.subject.otherWashington and Lee University -- Honors in Englishen_US
dc.titleThe Politics of Poverty: Conscience and Justice in the Modern Novel (thesis)en_US
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dc.rights.holderStruebing, Jake Elijah
dc.subject.fastWright, Richard, 1908-1960en_US
dc.subject.fastOliver Twist (Dickens, Charles)en_US
dc.subject.fastPoverty in literatureen_US
dc.subject.fastSocial justice in literatureen_US
dc.subject.fastPostmodernism (Literature)en_US
local.departmentEnglishen_US
local.scholarshiptypeHonors Thesisen_US


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