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Author:

Dowling, Robert M., 1970-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

ix, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--New York--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--New York--History--19th century.
Literature and society--New York--New York--History--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--In literature.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

0252031946 (acid-free paper)
9780252031946 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77270686

LCCN:

2006100925

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)