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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum (Hardcover)

by Keith Gandal (Author) "Though in many ways Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives follows in the tradition of nineteenth-century charity writing, portions of his book are unlike..." (more)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: OUP USA (19 Feb 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0195110633
ISBN-13: 978-0195110630
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16 x 2.4 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,892,093 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"An excellent book that should be welcomed by anyone interested in modern American thought."--Choice
"An important, provocative new perspective on the conjunction of social and literary history, one which will force a major rethinking of the place of realism in the making of modern American culture."--Eric Sundquist, Northwestern University
"Gandal has made an original, compelling case for rereading Riis and Crane as exemplars of a new style of reading, writing, and knowing the slum and the spectator's relation to it."--American Literature

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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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