The Virtues of the Vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum
by
Keith Gandal
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195110633
ISBN-13
9780195110630
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 19th, 1998
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
490 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Media studiesUrban communities
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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.
In this book, Gandal reveals how the slum, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, became the source of spectacle as never before (in newspapers, documentary accounts, photographs, and literature), and emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. He argues that the development of these new concepts and styles for representing the urban and largely immigrant poor amounted to a revolution in ethics, and provides close readings of Jacob Riis''s How the Other Half Lives and Stephen Crane''s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.
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