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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum
Gandal, Keith (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Mount Saint Mary's College)
The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum
Gandal, Keith (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Mount Saint Mary's College)
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.
216 pages, halftones
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 19, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780195110630 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 216 |
Dimensions | 163 × 236 × 20 mm · 490 g |