The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum /

The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum / Keith Gandal.

In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vi...

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Main Author: Gandal, Keith.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Crane, Stephen, > 1871-1900. > Maggie, a girl of the streets.
Riis, Jacob A. > (Jacob August), > 1849-1914. > How the other half lives.
Riis, Jacob A. > (Jacob August), > 1849-1914 > Influence.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Didactic literature, American > History and criticism.
Slums > New York (State) > New York > Historiography.
City and town life in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Slums in literature.
Spectacular, The.

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Call Number: PS1449.C85 M334 1997
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