Maggie A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York)

by Crane, Stephen; Hayes, Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9780312152666
• ISBN10: 0312152663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

About the Series	p. v
About This Volume	p. ix
List of Illustrations	p. xvii
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): The Complete Text	p. 1
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background	p. 3
Chronology of Crane's Life and Times	p. 24
A Note on the Text	p. 34
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) [1893 Edition]	p. 36
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York): Cultural Contexts	p. 95
In Darkest New York	p. 97
Tenement Life	p. 102
"A Hot Wave among the Poor"	p. 102
"The New Uncle Tom's Cabin"	p. 106
"The Tenement-House Problem"	p. 112
"Tenement-House Morality"	p. 120
"The Problem of the Children"	p. 128
From "Life in New York Tenement-Houses"	p. 133
Shops, Saloons, Concert Halls	p. 145
From "The Bowery"	p. 145
"The Bowery at Night"	p. 159
"Where 'De Gang' Hears the Band Play"	p. 165
"The Beer Gardens"	p. 170
From "The Saloon in Society"	p. 174
"Tempting Poor Women: They Buy Beer and Have It Charged as 'Potatoes'"	p. 183
From Metropolitan Life Unveiled; or the Mysteries and Miseries of America's Great Cities	p. 187
The Plight of the Working Woman	p. 195
Working Women from the Perspective of Others	p. 199
"The Song of the Shirt"	p. 199
"The Working Girls of New York"	p. 202
"Queens of the Shop, the Workroom, and the Tenement"	p. 208
"Senate Testimony from 'Jennie June'"	p. 217
"Store Girls: Their Fascinations, Foibles and Temptations"	p. 226
"The Woes of the New York Working-Girl"	p. 233
Working Women Tell Their Own Stories	p. 243
"In Employment Offices: Trials of Women Who Look There for Work"	p. 244
"Counter Trials: The Shop-Girl Speaks"	p. 250
"The Song of the Shirt: How the Finisher Lives"	p. 252
"The Embroiderer: Quick Work and Scanty Wages"	p. 254
"The Scarf-Maker"	p. 256
"The Lace-Maker"	p. 258
"The Black-Borderer: A Solemn Kind of Work"	p. 260
"The Painted Cohorts"	p. 263
From The History of Prostitution	p. 266
"Street Girls"	p. 273
"Prostitution"	p. 276
From Metropolitan Life Unveiled	p. 285
"Report on Prostitution and the Working Woman"	p. 289
"The Case of Rose Haggerty"	p. 294
Realism and Beyond	p. 302
Critics and Theorists	p. 305
From Aesthetics	p. 305
From The Art of Fiction	p. 311
"The Future of Fiction"	p. 316
"The Justification of Slum Stories"	p. 327
From "New York Low Life in Fiction"	p. 333
The Fallen Woman and Slum Fiction	p. 338
From The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes of a Bowery Girl	p. 338
From We and Our Neighbors	p. 345
From The Evil That Men Do	p. 353
"Minnie Kelsey's Wedding"	p. 361
Selected Bibliography	p. 370
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