{"product_id":"slumming-in-new-york-9780252076329","title":"Slumming in New York","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow marginalized literary voices changed from moral threats into cultural treasures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Augmented by rare period photographs, Dowling's study is a valuable addition to a now-sizable body of scholarship on literature and the city. . . . Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dowling offers an image of a city divided by urban landscapes and social strictures, but more importantly by a sense of moral difference often manifesting itself through progressivism. . . . Dowling's premises are compelling . . . the text inspire[s] further questioning of the interactions between the center and the periphery, the city and the writer, the scholar and the discourse.\"--\u003ci\u003eStudies in American Naturalism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Robustly written and thoroughly researched, Dowling's methods invigorate the literary history of New York City narratives.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlumming in New York\u003c\/i\u003e gracefully weaves together reformist tracts, sociological studies, and realist and naturalist fiction at the turn of the last century. It is rigorously interdisciplinary in its literary, historical, and sociological approach to novels, social tracts, ragtime and jazz, minstrel shows, vaudeville and Yiddish theater, and the 'slumming' that took place across the boundaries of race and class in New York City.\"--Katherine Joslin, author of \u003ci\u003eJane Addams, a Writer's Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlumming in New York\u003c\/i\u003e surveys late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realist and naturalist texts that focus on various New York City slums and ghettoes. In this fascinating study of an important genre of American literature, Dowling is especially sophisticated in his reversal of the usual concepts of 'outsider' and 'insider' narratives. His treatment of the concept of space(s) is innovative and insightful and will be useful to those interested in urban studies and the literature of New York City.\"--James R. Giles, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction   1\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Under the Bridge and Beyond\": Helen Campbell, Jerry McAuley, and Ernest Poole on the East Side Waterfront   19\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Culture of Contradictions: Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and the Transformation of the Bowery   48\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marginal Men in Black Bohemia: Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson in the Tenderloin   79\u003cbr\u003e 4. Realism in the Ghetto: Jacob Riis, Hutchins Hapgood, and Abraham Cahan on the Lower East Side   110\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Nigger Heaven\": Carl Van Vechten, Claude McKay, and the Construction of Mythic Harlem   139\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The City Turned Inside Out   171\u003cbr\u003e Notes   177\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography   181\u003cbr\u003e Index   191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrations follow page 78\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515388322135,"sku":"9780252076329","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slumming-in-new-york-9780252076329","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}