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Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348034
This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around the terms 'hobo', 'tramp', and 'vagabond'.
Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348072
The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Author : Josiah Flynt
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547132134
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tramping with Tramps: Studies and Sketches of Vagabond Life" by Josiah Flynt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : JOSIAH. FLYNT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033557625
Author : Ian Cutler
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627310895
Jim Christy’s life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia in the 50’s and 60’s before the book moves on to recount his later exploits from some of the most remote and random corners of the world.
Author : Josiah Flynt (pseud. Josiah Flynt) Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Tramps
ISBN : OCLC:247270794
Author : Josiah Flynt Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Tramps
ISBN : LCCN:76100451
Author : Josiah Flynt
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1293838896
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : Carl G. Liungman
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9051991975
The book is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of Western ideograms ever published, unique in its search systems, that allows the reader to locate a symbol by defining just four of its visual characteristics. It is about our graphic cultural heritage as expressed in subway graffiti, fighter jets' signs and emergency exit symbols. It contains 2,300 symbols, 1,600 articles and streamlined reference functions. Ideogram scarved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men 25,000 years ago, put on modern household appliances by their manufacturers or sprayed on walls by political activists, are all presented in dictionary form for easy reference. Symbols cover current designs used in advertising, logotyping, architecture, design, decoration, religion, politics and astrology.
Author : Roger A. Bruns
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005712083
"In the glory days of hoboing, hundreds of thousands of Americans were lured by the wail of soot-belching locomotives pulling long lines of freight cars. They hit the tracks and beat their way across an America laced with railroad lines. Some road in boxcars, or crouched in cowcatchers, some in empty battery boxes beneath passenger cars, others clung precariously to the brake rods inches from stinging cinders. The ingenuity of the hobo was only exceeded by his courage and, in many cases, his desperation. Few hobo jungles remain. The men and women who sat around campfires, swapping yarns, sharing stew, drinking "red-eye"--the working stiffs gay cats, yeggs, gandy dancers, and prushins--are a vanishing species. But here, this fascinating, flamboyant chapter of American history lives on. Interviews, letters, songs, poetry, articles from hobo newspapers, IWW literature and autobiographical accounts evoke a colorful, often savage portrait of hobo life from the late 1800's to the Great Depression... of lonely days rolling across silent prairies... all the sights from the stem of West Madison Street in Chicago to the berry fields of California... the spectacle of mangled comrades fallen from trains... countless jobs, some good, many bad... times in jail and on chain gangs... shivering nights on flophouse floors... bloody brawls and hostile towns... of excitement, adventure and freedom. Scoopshovel Scotty, Chicken Red Donovan, Mountain Dew, Boxcar Bertha, Steam Train Maury Graham and many others sing their songs and tell their tales. Iconoclasts all, they defied traditional values, bent on staking their own claim to the American ideal of rugged individualism. Hardships and humiliations were commonplace, but the overwhelming desire to wander freely, to be hard travellin' drifters kept them always on the move. Drawing on personal interviews with veteran hoboes and previously untapped sources, including the John J. McCook collection and a recently unearthed cache of material in the National Archives, Roger Bruns captures the vagabond spirit of these knights of the road and of "them days gone forever." -- Jacket flaps
Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861895684
This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes the "tramp scare" of the late nineteenth century and explores the assumption that tramps were invariably male and therefore a threat to women. Cresswell also examines tramps as comic figures and looks at the work of prominent American photographers which signaled a sympathetic portrayal of this often-despised group. Perhaps most significantly, The Tramp in America calls into question the common assumption that mobility played a central role in the production of American identity. “This is an effective, and sometimes touching, account of how a social phenomenon was created, classified and reclassified. The quality of the writing, the excellent illustrations and the high production standards give this reasonably-priced hardback a chance of appealing to a general audience . . . an important contribution to American studies, providing new perspectives on the significance of mobility and rootlessness at an important time in the development of the nation. Cresswell successfully illuminates the history of a disadvantaged and marginal group, while providing a lens by which to focus on the thinking and practices of the mainstream culture with which they dealt. As such, this book represents a considerable achievement.”—Cultural Geographies “An important book. Cresswell has made an important contribution to a homelessness literature still lacking a more sophisticated theoretical edge. Clearly written, beautifully illustrated and with a strong argument throughout, the book deserves to be widely read by students and practitioners alike.”—Progress in Human Geography
Author : Kenneth Hare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Rogues and vagabonds
ISBN : LCCN:31017571
Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627311274
Ladies’ man. Child soldier. War hero. Egotist. Tramp. Drunkard. Published author. Each of these descriptions captures some part of William ‘Roving Bill’ Aspinwall’s life, and yet none does him justice. Born one of 23 siblings, married 5 times, wounded fighting for the Union in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, kicked out of numerous jobs and solders’ homes for drunkenness, and having spent decades wandering as penniless vagabond, Bill also kept up a 24-year correspondence with John James McCook, Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. In so doing Bill provided the earliest and best account of life on the road by an American hobo. Written between 1893 and 1917, Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells Bill’s story entirely in his own words. Describing experiences on the road, the people he meets, his dalliances with women and his memories of the Civil War, the letters are a rich and unique correspondence. Having been physically and mentally scarred at the 1843 Battle of Champion Hill, Bill details his lifelong battle with booze. He also gives first-hand accounts of men thrown out of work during the economic Panic of 1893, of wandering around the country as an itinerant umbrella-mender, of working in factories, farms and even a circus, as well as his visit to the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1903. Bill's words are the real voice of a nineteenth-century hobo.
Author : Lawrence Friedman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781459608139
In a panoramic history of our criminal justice system from Colonial times to today, one of our foremost legal thinkers shows how America fashioned a system of crime and punishment in its own image.
Author : Josiah Flynt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641475573