03079nam 2200757Ia 450 991045823330332120200520144314.01-280-45336-21-4237-5957-50-19-535497-41-60256-163-X(CKB)1000000000363245(EBL)273254(OCoLC)252563824(SSID)ssj0000267841(PQKBManifestationID)11222093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267841(PQKBWorkID)10212698(PQKB)11423538(MiAaPQ)EBC273254(MiAaPQ)EBC4702754(Au-PeEL)EBL273254(CaPaEBR)ebr10278479(CaONFJC)MIL45336(OCoLC)935260982(EXLCZ)99100000000036324519960923d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe virtues of the vicious[electronic resource] Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the spectacle of the slum /Keith GandalNew York Oxford University Press19971 online resource (217 p.)Revision of the authors thesis (doctoral)--University of California at Berkeley.0-19-511063-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.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; YIn 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.American prose literature19th centuryHistory and criticismDidactic literature, AmericanHistory and criticismSlumsNew York (State)New YorkHistoriographyCity and town life in literatureSocial ethics in literatureSlums in literatureSpectacular, TheElectronic books.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Didactic literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.SlumsHistoriography.City and town life in literature.Social ethics in literature.Slums in literature.Spectacular, The.307.7640973813.4813.4Gandal Keith983944MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458233303321The virtues of the vicious2246706UNINA