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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784556303321

Autore

Gandal Keith

Titolo

The virtues of the vicious [[electronic resource] ] : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the spectacle of the slum / / Keith Gandal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-772671-2

1-280-45336-2

1-4237-5957-5

0-19-535497-4

1-60256-163-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

307.7640973

813.4

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the authors thesis (doctoral)--University of California at Berkeley.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Riis and Charity Writing; 2 Crane and Slum Fiction; 3 The Touristic Ethic and Photography; 4 ""In Search of Excitement"": The Ethics of Entertainment; 5 Self-Esteem and the Tough; 6 Psychological Moralities of the Slum; Afterword; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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.