TY - BOOK ID - 77865804 TI - The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum PY - 2023 SN - 1280453362 1423759575 0195354974 160256163X 9781423759577 9781602561632 9781280453366 9786610453368 6610453365 0195110633 9780195110630 9780195354973 0197726712 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - American prose literature KW - Didactic literature, American KW - Slums KW - City and town life in literature. KW - Social ethics in literature. KW - Slums in literature. KW - Spectacular, The. KW - Spectacle KW - Aesthetics KW - Slum clearance KW - Housing KW - History and criticism. KW - Historiography. KW - Crane, Stephen, KW - Riis, Jacob A. KW - Riis, Jacob August, KW - Influence. KW - Crane, Stephen KW - Riis, Jacob August KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Didactic literature [American ] KW - New York (State) KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Historiography KW - City and town life in literature KW - Slums in literature KW - Spectacular [The ] KW - Crane, Stephen, - 1871-1900. - Maggie, a girl of the streets. KW - Riis, Jacob A. - (Jacob August), - 1849-1914. - How the other half lives. KW - Didactic literature, American - History and criticism. KW - Slums - New York (State) - New York - Historiography. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77865804 AB - Gandal reveals how the slum, in last decade of 19th century America became the source of spectacle in the press, photography and literature. He argues that this interest amounted to a revolution in ethics. ER -