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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
025207632X
ISBN-13
9780252076329
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038258189
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Publication Name
Slumming in New York : from the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem
Language
English
Subject
American / African American, United States / 19th Century, General, American / General, American / Regional, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"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."-- Studies in American Naturalism, "Slumming in New Yorkgracefully 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 ofJane Addams, a Writer's Life"Slumming in New Yorksurveys 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 ofThe Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America, " Slumming in New York 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 Jane Addams, a Writer's Life, ''Slumming in New York 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 Jane Addams, a Writer's Life ''Slumming in New York 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 The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America, Β "Robustly written and thoroughly researched, Dowling's methods invigorate the literary history of New York City narratives."-- American Literary Realism, "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."-- Choice, " Slumming in New York 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 Jane Addams, a Writer's Life, "Robustly written and thoroughly researched, Dowling's methods invigorate the literary history of New York City narratives."-- American Literary Realism, " Slumming in New York 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 The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.009327471
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. "Under the Bridge and Beyond": Helen Campbell, Jerry McAuley, and Ernest Poole on the East Side Waterfront 19 2. A Culture of Contradictions: Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, and the Transformation of the Bowery 48 3. Marginal Men in Black Bohemia: Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Weldon Johnson in the Tenderloin 79 4. Realism in the Ghetto: Jacob Riis, Hutchins Hapgood, and Abraham Cahan on the Lower East Side 110 5. "Nigger Heaven": Carl Van Vechten, Claude McKay, and the Construction of Mythic Harlem 139 Epilogue: The City Turned Inside Out 171 Notes 177 Bibliography 181 Index 191 Illustrations follow page 78
Synopsis
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 shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem. Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling shows how literary works transformed moral threats into cultural treasures., 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., 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 ......, 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, 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.
LC Classification Number
PS374.N43D69 2009
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