A01=Robert Dowling
Author_Robert Dowling
black Bohemia
black studies
Bowery
Carl Van Vechten
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city
culture
East Side
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ethnicity theory
Harlem
Hutchins Hapgood
Jewish Lower East Side
literature
neighborhood
New York City
New York City waterfront
Nigger Heaven
ninteenth century
NYC
Paul Laurence Dunbar
popular culture
progressivism
regional studies
social anxiety
social strictures
Stephen Crane
The Spirit of the Ghetto
The Sport of the Gods
twentieth century
urban landscape
Product details
- ISBN 9780252076329
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2008
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Robert M. Dowling is an associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.
