William Dow
Introduction

 A. Poverty and Literary Studies

Robert Sayre
The Southern Poor White in Two Short Stories by William Faulkner

N. Dubois
Poverty and its “many folds” in King Lear

B. Poverty: Social and historical analyses

Marie-Françoise Alamichel
La Pauvreté dans l’Angleterre anglo-saxonne (VIe-XIe siècles) : les outils du chercheur

Philippa Woodcock
Queenly Poverty: the justified impoverishment of Elizabeth Woodville and Katherine of Aragon

C. Poverty:  Community art projects, sociology, and the working poor

Hélène Alfaro
Les Arts et le développement communautaire à Belfast (fin des années 1970 milieu des années 1980)

Sieglinde Lemke
Working Poverty in the US: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America and its Countercultural Legacy