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- catalog abstract "In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. From this period dates the fascination with the "colorful" alternative customs and ethics of slum residents, and an emphasis on nurturing their self-steem. Middle-class portrayals of slum life as "strange and dangerous" formed part of a broad turn-of-the-century quest for masculinity, Gandal argues, a response to a sentimental Victorian respectability perceived as stifling. These changes in middle-class styles for representing the urban poor signalled a transformation in middle-class ethics and a reconception of subjectivity.".
- catalog contributor b10697632.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. From this period dates the fascination with the "colorful" alternative customs and ethics of slum residents, and an emphasis on nurturing their self-steem. Middle-class portrayals of slum life as "strange and dangerous" formed part of a broad turn-of-the-century quest for masculinity, Gandal argues, a response to a sentimental Victorian respectability perceived as stifling. These changes in middle-class styles for representing the urban poor signalled a transformation in middle-class ethics and a reconception of subjectivity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. I. The New Ethnography of the Slum. 1. Riis and Charity Writing. 2. Crane and Slum Fiction -- pt. II. Slum Spectacle. 3. The Touristic Ethic and Photography. 4. "In Search of Excitement": The Ethics of Entertainment -- pt. III. Slum Psychology. 5. Self-Esteem and the Tough. 6. Psychological Moralities of the Slum.".
- catalog extent "viii, 206 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195110633 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "813/.4 20".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "City and town life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. Maggie, a girl of the streets.".
- catalog subject "Didactic literature, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS1449.C85 M334 1997".
- catalog subject "Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 Influence.".
- catalog subject "Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914. How the other half lives.".
- catalog subject "Slums New York (State) New York Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Slums in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social ethics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Spectacular, The.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. The New Ethnography of the Slum. 1. Riis and Charity Writing. 2. Crane and Slum Fiction -- pt. II. Slum Spectacle. 3. The Touristic Ethic and Photography. 4. "In Search of Excitement": The Ethics of Entertainment -- pt. III. Slum Psychology. 5. Self-Esteem and the Tough. 6. Psychological Moralities of the Slum.".
- catalog title "The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum / Keith Gandal.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".