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Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. urn:nbn:hr:131:138772
Barešić, Adriana
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Barešić, A. (2023). Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

Barešić, Adriana. "Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

Barešić, Adriana. "Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

Barešić, A. (2023). 'Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 11 July 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

Barešić A. Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2023 [cited 2024 July 11] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

A. Barešić, "Poverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2023. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:138772

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TitlePoverty, politics, and gender in the working-class literature: Walter Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole' and Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'
AuthorAdriana Barešić
MentorMartina Domines Veliki (mentor)
Committee memberBorislav Knežević (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberHrvoje Tutek (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberMartina Domines Veliki (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2023-10-04, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Poverty as a topic in literary analysis has risen in popularity in recent years with the development of a new field called the New Poverty Studies. The field of study is still in its developing stages, but its main concern is researching the effect writing about poverty had on the public perception of the poor. This thesis is concerned with working-class writers and their works with the focus being on the two working-class novels: 'Love on the Dole' written by Walter Greenwood and 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell. It offers a brief historical overview of the original working-class writers and their development into the early 20th-century working-class novel. The work further focuses on recognizing the causes of poverty as well as the consequences it leaves on one's body, mental well-being, and the perception of their gender. Through the analysis of the two novels concepts such as capitalism, socialism, poverty, and class have been elaborated as well as the role they have played in the continuation of the abuses of the working class. The thesis shows the destruction of the working class through the abuses of the capitalistic system, and the lack of recognition of the part the poor themselves play in perpetuating the torturous system. Moreover, the analysis will demonstrate the daily lives of the poor and the authors’ personal connection to poverty. Most of the poverty writing was brought into focus by those who were not of the working class and had no experience or knowledge of the reality that the poor are faced with. It made their portrayal of the poor unreliable and oftentimes sensationalistic and comic instead of authentic. It frequently caused damage of misinformation, presenting the poor as lazy thieves, and idlers. The working-class writers brought a new, realistic, and perception-changing dimension to poverty literature.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:138772
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Literature and Culture
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resourceText
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