The Virtues of the Vicious
By :"Keith Gandal"
Published on 1997-10-23 by Oxford University Press
Category :"Literary Criticism"
In this compelling work, Keith Gandal reveals how the slum in nineteenth-century America, long a topic for sober moral analysis, became in the 1890s an unprecedented source of spectacle, captured in novels, newspapers, documentary accounts, and photographs. Reflecting a change in the middle-class vision of the poor, the slum no longer drew attention simply as a problem of social conditions and vice but emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. From this period dates the fascination with the \
Lenght : 224
Language : en
This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword vicious
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