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

by KeithGandal (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1998

  $250.84

  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.