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Article: Gendered space, racialized space: nativism, the immigrant woman and Stephen Crane's 'Maggie.' (novel 'Maggie: a Girl of the Streets')
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- College Literature
- Article date:
- October 1, 1993
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The anxiety that attaches to the figure of woman is that of a difference
that escapes the discourses of containment. (Solomon-Godeau 103)
Women and their bodies, certain bodies, in certain public framings, in
certain public spaces, are always already transgressive -- dangerous, and
in danger. (Mary Russo)
Stephen Crane's short novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has benefited from a renewed critical interest in naturalist fiction, specifically the relation of this genre to the emergent culture of consumption in turn-of-the-century America.(1) Earlier critical readings of the novel as primarily an indictment of the hypocrisy ...