Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dowling, Robert M., 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
Subjects:	American fiction > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism. American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. New York (N.Y.) > In literature. New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions. Slums in literature. Outsiders in literature. Immigrants in literature. Literature and society > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Literature and society > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
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Table of 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.