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

----- 恶毒的美德：雅各比·里斯，斯蒂芬·克莱恩和贫民窟的奇观

ISBN: 9780195110630 出版年：1997 页码：217 Gandal, Keith Oxford University Press

In this book, Gandal reveals how the slum, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, became the source of spectacle as never before (in newspapers, documentary accounts, photographs, and literature), and emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. He argues that the development of these new concepts and styles for representing the urban and largely immigrant poor amounted to a revolution in ethics, and provides close readings of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives and Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.