Title: Slumming in New York
First published: July 27, 2007
Description: 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 shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem. Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling shows how literary works transformed moral threats into cultural treasures.
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Emigration and immigration in literature, Literature and society, New york (n.y.), in literature, New york (n.y.), social conditions, American fiction, History and criticism, In literature, Social conditions, Slums in literature, Outsiders in literature, Immigrants in literature, History