Article: The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum.(Review)

Gandal, Keith. The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. 206 pp. Cloth: $49.95.

Using the poststructuralist approach of Michel Foucault, this impressive short book focuses on a modification in fin de siecle attitudes toward the urban poor in America as embodied primarily in Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives (1890) and Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893). Only supporting attention is devoted to other studies of the slums by Riis and Crane or by writers of the period with similar concerns. Employing Crane and Riis as exemplars, Gandal traces a ...

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