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Trapped in class? Material manifestations of poverty and prosperity in Alice Munro's "Royal Beatings" and "The Beggar Maid".

This article argues that material objects in Canadian writer Alice Munro's short fiction both reflect socio-economic concerns of pre- and post-WWII Canadian society and complicate common conceptions of deprivation and material ambition. The analyses of "Royal Beatings" and "The Beggar Maid" demonstr...

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Published in:Neohelicon Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 521 - 536
Main Author: Berndt, Katrin
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature 2020
Subjects:
Socioeconomics
Materiality (Accounting)
Material facts (Law)
Poverty
World War II
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