Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (Norton Critical Editions)

by Crane, Stephen; Gullason, Thomas A.

• ISBN13: 9780393950243
• ISBN10: 0393950247
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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Author Biography

Kevin J. Hayes (Ph.D., University of Delaware) is associate professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Text of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) (1893)	1	(58)
A Note on the Text	59	(2)
Backgrounds and Sources	61	(60)
New York City Locales Mentioned in Maggie	62	(2)
Map of Lower Manhattan	64	(1)
From The Dangerous Classes of New York	65	(3)
Charles Loring Brace
Reverend Thomas De Witt Talmage From The Evil Beast	68	(7)
From The Night Sides of City Life	71	(4)
From How the Other Half Lives	75	(12)
Jacob Riis
From The Children of the Poor	85	(2)
Benjamin Orange Flower From Civilization's Inferno	87	(3)
[Zola as Literary Model for Maggie]	90	(4)
Lars Ahnebrink
Stephen Crane and the American Background of Maggie	94	(9)
Marcus Cunliffe
[A Minister, a Social Reformer, and Maggie]	103	(5)
Thomas A. Gullason
Stephen Crane's Maggie and Darwinism	108	(4)
David Fitelson
Howells' ``Maggie''	112	(4)
Daniel Aaron
[Maggie and the Parody of Popular Fiction]	116	(5)
Eric Solomon
The Author and the Novel	121	(20)
Birth Notices, Letters, and Inscriptions: The 1893 Maggie	123	(1)
The Real Stephen Crane	123	(1)
Frank W. Noxon
The Launching of Stephen Crane	124	(1)
Willis Fletcher Johnson
Howells Discussed at Avon-by-the-Sea	125	(12)
Stephen Crane
The Broken-Down Van	126	(5)
Summer Dwellers at Asbury Park and Their Doings	131	(1)
Letters and Inscriptions	132	(5)
Rebirth And Revisions: The 1896 Maggie	137	(1)
Letters	137	(4)
Stephen Crane
Contemporary Reviews	141	(20)
American Reviews: 1893	143	(1)
From the Port Jervis [New York] Union	143	(1)
An Ambitious French Novel and a Modest American Story	144	(1)
Hamlin Garland
The Author-Artist Will Soon Issue a Book---Stephen Crane's ``Maggie''	145	(1)
From The Bookman [New York]	146	(1)
The Justification of Slum Stories	147	(2)
Chelifer
Rupert Hughes
American Reviews: 1896	149	(1)
From the New York Tribune	149	(1)
From The Nation	150	(1)
Stephen Crane's Stories of Life in the Slums: Maggie and George's Mother	151	(1)
Frank Norris
A Melodrama of the Streets	152	(2)
Edward Bright
New York Low Life in Fiction	154	(3)
William Dean Howells
English Reviews: 1896	157	(1)
From The Bookman [London]	157	(1)
From The Athenaeum	158	(1)
Another View of ``Maggie''	158	(2)
H. G. Wells
Novels of American Life	160	(1)
Criticism	161	(93)
[Crane's Art in Maggie]	163	(2)
John Berryman
[Hallucination and Hysteria in Maggie]	165	(5)
Charles Child Walcutt
New Testament Inversions in Crane's Maggie	170	(3)
William Bysshe Stein
Ironic and Symbolic Structure in Crane's Maggie	173	(11)
Joseph X. Brennan
The Structure of Crane's Maggie	184	(2)
Janet Overmyer
Stephen Crane's Maggie and American Naturalism	186	(8)
Donald Pizer
[Art and Compromise: The 1893 and the 1896 Maggie]	194	(9)
Joseph Katz
[Maggie as a Three-Act Drama]	203	(6)
Eric Solomon
[Maggie and Satire]	209	(3)
Jay Martin
[The Flawed Maggie]	212	(6)
Donald B. Gibson
[Lapses and Craft in Crane's Maggie]	218	(4)
Arno Karlen
Color Imagery in Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets	222	(8)
Katherine G. Simoneaux
[The Framework of Maggie]	230	(4)
Frank Bergon
Maggie's ``Last Night'': Authorial Design and Editorial Patching	234	(11)
Hershel Parker
Brian Higgins
Tragedy and Melodrama in Stephen Crane's Maggie	245	(9)
Thomas A. Gullason
Selected Bibliography	254