Download or read book Poverty in Contemporary Literature written by B. Korte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.