The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, and the Spectacle of the Slum

Gandal reveals how the slum at century’s end became a source of spectacle as never before, and emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description. Gandal reveals how the slum, in the last decade of the nineteenth century, became a source of spectacle as never before, and emerged as a subject for aesthetic, ethnographic, and psychological description.