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| Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Stephen Crane |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Crane; Thomas A Gullason |
| ISBN: | 0393012220 9780393012224 0393950247 9780393950243 |
| OCLC Number: | 4496961 |
| Description: | xiii, 258 p. : maps ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The text of Maggie: a girl of the streets (A story of New York) (1893) -- Background and sources: New York City locales mentioned in Maggie -- Map of Lower Manhattan -- The dangerous classes of New York / Charles Loring Brace -- The evil beast, The night sides of city life / Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage -- How the other half lives, The children of the poor / Jacob Riis -- Civilization's inferno / Benjamin Orange Flower -- [Zola as literary model for Maggie] / Las Ahnebrink -- Stephen Crane and the American background of Maggie / Marcus Cunliffe -- [A minister, a social reformer, and Maggie] / Thomas A. Gullason -- Stephen Crane's Maggie and Darwinism / David Fitelson -- Howells' "Maggie" / Daniel Aaron -- [Maggie and the parody of popular fiction] / Eric Solomon -- The author and the novel: Birth notices, letters and inscriptions: the 1893 Maggie: The real Stephen Crane / Frank W. Noxon -- The launching of Stephen Crane / Willis Fletcher Johnson -- Howells discussed at Avon-by-the-sea, The broken-down van, Summer dwellings at Asbury Park and their doings, Letters and inscriptions / Stephen Crane -- Rebirth and revisions: The 1896 Maggie -- letters / Stephen Crane -- Contemporary reviews: American reviews: 1893: Port Jervis [New York] Union -- An ambitious French novel and a modest American story / Hamlin Garland -- The author-artist will soon issue a book -- Stephen Crane's "Maggie" -- The Bookman [New York] -- The justification of slum stories / Chelifer [Rupert Hughes] -- American reviews: 1896: New York Tribune -- The Nation -- Stephen Crane's stories of life in the slums: Maggie and George's mother / Frank Norris -- A melodrama of the streets / Edward Bright -- New York low life in fiction / William Dean Howells -- English reviews: 1896 : The Bookman [London] -- The Athenaeum -- Another view of "Maggie" / H. G. Wells -- Novels of American life -- Criticism: [Crane's art in Maggie] / John Berryman -- [Hallucination and hysteria in Maggie] / Charles Child Walcutt -- New Testament inversions in Crane's Maggie / William Bysshe Stein -- Ironic and symbolic structure in Crane's Maggie / Joseph X. Brennan -- The structure of Crane's Maggie / Janet Overmyer -- Stephen Crane's Maggie and American naturalism / Donald Pizer -- [Art and compromise: the 1893 and the 1896 Maggie] / Joseph Katz -- [Maggie as a three-act drama] / Eric Solomon -- [Maggie and satire] / Jay Martin -- [The flawed Maggie] / Donald B. Gibson -- [Lapses and craft in Crane's Maggie] / Arno Karlen -- Color imagery in Crane's Maggie: A girl of the streets / Katherine G. Simoneaux -- [The framework of Maggie] / Frank Bergon -- Maggie's "Last night": authorial design and editorial patching / Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins -- Tragedy and melodrama in Stephen Crane's Maggie / Thomas A. Gullason. |
| Series Title: | A Norton critical edition |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Crane ; an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, the author and the novel, reviews and criticism, edited by Thomas A. Gullason. |
Abstract:
Presents an annotated edition of the nineteenth-century novel about Maggie, a beautiful tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and includes backgrounds and sources, reviews, critical essays, and a history of the novel's composition and revision.
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