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The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum - Couverture rigide

Gandal, Keith

 
9780195110630: The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195110633 ISBN 13 : 9780195110630
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

What is offered is not a facile debunking of Riis and Crane's work - far from it - but rather a generally incisive social analysis charting a shift of American ethics and aesthetics ... engaging, coherent critique. (Will Kaufman, American Studies 33:2 1999)

Gandal engages with a range of historical, ethical and sociological arguments in a text which undoubtedly will become the basis for more investigations into this area and period in US history./Philip McGowan/The Constituent Associations of the EAAS

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195110633
ISBN 13 
9780195110630
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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