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.
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Oxford University Press,
1997
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