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Gavin Jones, chair of the English department at Stanford University, is author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America and American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945.
Writers of the Gilded Age unsettled the comfortable relations between failure and poverty, wealth and success.
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