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By J. Westgate

ISBN-10: 1137359684

ISBN-13: 9781137359681

ISBN-10: 1349471666

ISBN-13: 9781349471669

Drawing on conventional archival examine, reception idea, cultural histories of slumming, and up to date paintings in severe concept on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum performs served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding moral duties concerned therein.

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