{"product_id":"the-american-vagrant-in-literature-bryan-yazell-9781399506724","title":"The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and Welfare","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with 'tramps', facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state's ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population. Almost always depicted as white, solitary, and artistic, the tramp character was once a menacing threat to society only to disappear from the public eye by the postwar period. This book brings to light the often-surprising lines of influence between authors, sociologists, and government authorities who alike seized on the social panic around tramping in order to reimagine the relation of work to national citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryan Yazell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399506722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399506724\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d","brand":"Bryan Yazell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881045577983,"sku":"9781399506724","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c1ed05a-3329-472a-932d-89184e10e833.jpg?v=1747970503","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-american-vagrant-in-literature-bryan-yazell-9781399506724","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}