Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: (A Story of New York) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349620500)

This definitive, annotated edition of Maggie is based on Crane's original 1893 text and provides instructors with everything they need to teach the work in its historical and cultural context. Over 175 pages of documents are organized into thematic units on late-nineteenth and turn of the century American society to give the reader a context for Maggie. The various chapters in this edition cover topics such as tenement life; shops, saloons, concert-halls; working women from the perspectives of others; working women tell their own stories; prostitution; realism; and slum fiction.

Author: Na Na
ISBN-10: 1349620505
ISBN-13: 9781349620500
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/12/1999
Pages: 374
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d