Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum
Published:
1997
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, New York
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...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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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
