“Lennard J. Davis’s Poor Things provocatively argues that those that write about poor people but are not or have not themselves been poor, is governed by various tropes and protocols that serve to depict the poor as revolting and ultimately less human than the rich. The implications of the argument go well beyond the nineteenth-century focus that he adopts and has resonances for various other fields such as economics, anthropology, sociology, and various others. It is a masterpiece of intellectual suggestiveness.”
-- Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford University