Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Gandal, Keith.

Title The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum / Keith Gandal.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Oxford University Press on-line
Oxford University Press on-line.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
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.
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900.
Riis, Jacob A., 1849-1914 Riis, Jacob August.
Riis, Jacob A., 1849-1914 Riis, Jacob August -- Influence.
How the other half lives (Riis, Jacob A.)
Maggie, a girl of the streets (Crane, Stephen)
American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American prose literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Didactic literature, American -- History and criticism.
Didactic literature, American.
Slums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Historiography.
Slums.
New York (State) -- New York.
Historiography.
City and town life in literature.
City and town life in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Slums in literature.
Slums in literature.
Spectacular, The.
Spectacular, The.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Gandal, Keith. Virtues of the vicious. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 (DLC) 96044306
ISBN 1423759575 (electronic book)
9781423759577 (electronic book)
160256163X
9781602561632
1280453362
9781280453366
0195110633 (Cloth)
9780195110630