Owen Clayton is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln (UK). His current research focuses on representations of vagrancy and homelessness. He is working on his second book, provisionally entitled Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: the Literature and Culture of American Transiency. His first monograph, Literature and Photography in Transition, came out with Palgrave MacMillan in 2015.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland’s Vagrancy Act must be scrapped. But will its replacement be any better?Any solutions to end homelessness must be work in collaboration with the people whom they are designed to help – not...
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Published in: HomeHart Island: New York City’s dark shadowBeing Hart Island, the proposed park – given the racist title ‘Negro Coney Island’ – was to be solely for black...
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Published in: HomeThe many sides of Jack LondonSpeaking to us 100 years after his death, in the era of Nigel Farage and Donald Trump, Jack London’s late novels...