Virtues of the Vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum.
Başlık:
Virtues of the Vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum.
Yazar:
Gandal, Keith.
ISBN:
9781602561632
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (217 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The New Ethnography of the Slum -- 1 Riis and Charity Writing -- 2 Crane and Slum Fiction -- Part II: Slum Spectacle -- 3 The Touristic Ethic and Photography -- 4 "In Search of Excitement": The Ethics of Entertainment -- Part III: Slum Psychology -- 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.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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