Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem / Robert M. Dowling.

Author/creator Dowling, Robert M., 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2007.
Descriptionix, 200 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
American fiction--New York (State). --New York. --History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Slums in literature.
Outsiders in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Literature and society--New York (State). --New York. --History. --19th century.
Literature and society--New York (State). --New York. --History. --20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--In literature.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

Contents "Under the bridge and beyond" : Helen Campbell, Jerry McAuley, and Ernest Poole on the East Side waterfront -- A culture of contradictions : Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and the transformation of the Bowery -- Marginal men in Black bohemia : Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson in the Tenderloin -- Realism in the ghetto : Jacob Riis, Hutchins Hapgood, and Abraham Cahan on the Lower East Side -- "Nigger heaven" : Carl Van Vechten, Claude Mckay, and the construction of mythic Harlem -- Epilogue : The city turned inside out.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-190) and index.
LCCN 2006100925
ISBN9780252031946 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0252031946 (acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.N43 D69 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold