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The virtues of the vicious : Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the spectacle of the slum /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423759575 9781423759577 160256163X 9781602561632 1280453362 9781280453366 9786610453368 6610453365 0195354974 9780195354973 |