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 /

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Author / Creator:Gandal, Keith.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Oxford University Press on-line
Oxford University Press on-line.
Subject:
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.
Riis, Jacob A. -- (Jacob August), -- 1849-1914.
How the other half lives (Riis, Jacob A.)
Maggie, a girl of the streets (Crane, Stephen)
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.
American prose literature.
City and town life in literature.
Didactic literature, American.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Slums -- Historiography.
Slums in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Spectacular, The.
New York (State) -- New York.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11177990
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ISBN:1423759575
9781423759577
160256163X
9781602561632
1280453362
9781280453366
9786610453368
6610453365
0195110633
9780195110630
0195354974
9780195354973
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In this study, the author demonstrates how, in the last decade of the 19th century, the slum became a source of spectacle as never before - in newspapers, photographs and literature. With close readings of texts by Crane and Riis, he argues that this amounted to a revolution of ethics.
Other form:Print version: Gandal, Keith. Virtues of the vicious. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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