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"""By reading the figure of the tramp across literary narratives and articulations of the welfare state, The American Vagrant in Literature situates the white, male tramp as a generative figure for liberal welfare reform and rehabilitation. Yazell's work models an exciting comparative approach to both vagrancy narratives and the international emergence of the welfare state, as well as a methodology attuned to literature as both an instrument and, at times, a counterbalance to governmentality."" -Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Davis"

""By reading the figure of the tramp across literary narratives and articulations of the welfare state, The American Vagrant in Literature situates the white, male tramp as a generative figure for liberal welfare reform and rehabilitation. Yazell's work models an exciting comparative approach to both vagrancy narratives and the international emergence of the welfare state, as well as a methodology attuned to literature as both an instrument and, at times, a counterbalance to governmentality."" -Hsuan L. Hsu, University of California, Davis

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Bryan Yazell is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and a fellow at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study.

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