Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem

著者

• Dowling, Robert M.

書誌事項

Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem

Robert M. Dowling

University of Illinois Press, c2007

• : cloth

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-190) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of distinctive neighborhood cultures. Slumming in New York samples a number of New York "slumming" narratives--including Stephen Crane's Bowery tales, Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods, Hutchins Hapgood's The Spirit of the Ghetto, Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives, and Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven--to characterize and examine the relationship between New York writing and the city's cultural environment. Using the methods of ethnicity theory, black studies, regional studies, literary studies, and popular culture, Robert M. Dowling reveals the way in which "outsider" authors helped alleviate New York's mounting social anxieties by popularizing "insider" voices from neighborhoods as distinctive as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's ""black Bohemia,"" the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA85323103
• ISBN:
  • 9780252031946
• LCCN: 2006100925
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Urbana
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 200 p., [14] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS374.N43
  • DC22 : 813/.009327471
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Slums in literature
  • LCSH : Outsiders in literature
  • LCSH : Immigrants in literature
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century